Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spectators as well as the governing bodies hesitate to recognize any form of sport in which a player is not likely to be seriously hurt. Men who have played both university football and first-class tennis admit that a five-set tournament match may be a more grueling affair than the most desperate of gridiron battles, but with broken bones, cuts and bruises eliminated, there are usually no external evidences of the punishment. Unfortunately, however, it is also possible for a tennis, player to be an absolute quitter and yet be excused as merely "off his game" or "temperamentally unfortunate...
Fall rowing will come to an end next Tuesday with the start of the annual fall crew regatta, which will last until Friday. Every crew that has been rowing this fall is entered in the regatta, and the management expects to make the affair an even greater success than it has been in past years. According to the tentative schedule, the four days from Tuesday to Friday, inclusive, are filled with races, arranged approximately in the order of their importance. Thus on Friday will come not only the triangular University crew race, but also a race between the first crews...
Amending the treaty is a theoretical but impractical solution of this great problem. Doing so would, in the end, lead to inevitable turmoil. For, once the United States began offering reservations, other nations would follow suit; and then the whole affair would be amended out of its original conception...
Nearly every undesirable situation has its brighter aspects, and the Boston police strike has been no exception to this rule. If it has accomplished nothing else, it has brought to light men like Governor Coolidge. Throughout the whole unpleasant affair he has shown himself worthy of the greatest respect. His initiative, courage, and foresight saved his capitol, and possibly his state, from anarchy. The nation needs more public men who maintain in dealing with police strikers, that "there is no middle ground...
...members of the University Law School whether first year men or not, will be welcomed at the annual reception to law students in the Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at eight o'clock. The affair is to be entirely informal...