Word: alterity
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...Empire was governed by men of the highest respect for justice and the law, but as a matter of governmental necessity they were compelled to see to it that members of that idle and dangerous sect of agitators the Christians, burn a little just a little incense on the alter of the Emperor. They didn't do it, and some of us are inclined to admire them for it. JOHN F. SIMS...
...situation is a change in the name of that society, so as to eliminate all possibilities of further criticism. The Glee Club under its present system is rather more inclined toward the choral and the stately anthem than it is toward the rollicking-student song. Were the club to alter its name to that of "The Harvard Chora Society," not only could there be no more doubt as to its character, but it would also be more appropriately named in the eyes of those who are its friends...
...exact term is desired), the effects are apt to be disastrous. We have read of New Jersey court-houses, where the judge arrived an hour early and the jury an hour late, while the prisoner and the witnesses were kept in agonized suspense, of New Haven trains stopping to alter their schedules at every siding, water-tank, and town boundary in the state of Connecticut, of Farmers' Associations threatening to retire from business if the Daylight Saving Ordinonce were adopted, and Chambers of Commerce vowing to disband if it were not. At present most of us are in the same...
Colonel Woods, after graduating from the University, spent several years as instructor at Groton School, after which he went to Europe and was at the University of Berlin for two semesters. He spent part of 1905 and 1906 in New York City as reporter on the "Evening Sun," and alter studied, the police situation there. In the summer of 1905 he travelled through the Philippines with Secretary Taft's party, and later made a trip around the world. During the war he acted as an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War, at which time he advocated vocational education...
...President and Fellows in setting aside the balance of the sum necessary to start the School. This action assures the receipt from the General Education Board of their gift of $500,000 and establishes the School of Education on a firm basis. The action does not in any way alter the plans of the Harvard Endowment organization to continue their campaign...