Word: closer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Tufts was the first to bow to defeat, to the score of 7-0. A. S. Conlon, B. A. Hunneman, and Captain E. J. Daley were the individual starts in a game that was even closer than the score indicates...
...think that accident made him very patient and very kind and thoughtful of other people. He was really held in affectionate regard by more older people than any boy of his age I know, and of course I swore by him, and he by me. He was closer to me than anybody else, and I loved him as my best friend and brother. And now he has been killed...
...least of our gains in entering the great war is found in the establishment of closer relations with Canada. By appointing the former premier of Nova Scotia resident agent at Washington, the Dominion Government does away with the cumbrous system of conducting purely local or business negotiations through the British Foreign Office at London, and secures better representation of her local needs. To supplement the work of the resident agent, Premier Bordon has made several unpresaged but important visits to the United States for the correlation of our war activities, which must make more effective the movement of our united...
...position of President Lowell, not that of President Butler, is taken in the report to the American Association of University Professors by its Committee of Three, on academic freedom in wartime. This was to be expected. The report would have profited by making itself a closer parallel to the pronouncement from Harvard, which is the best considered statement on the subject that has appeared. In contrast with it, the report to the University Professors has the effect of avoiding the most difficult kinds of cases and laying down platitudes for principles. In general, it takes the ground that doubts should...
...civilized world, and as the great mass of people has become more interested in the problems of the day, education is not reserved for scholars alone. While mental training becomes more identical with the acquisition of practical knowledge, the demand for instruction in Greek and Latin grows less. The closer the co-operation between universities and the commercial, industrial universe of today, the greater becomes the call for college graduates. To meet this call, and to meet it with men specially trained in a specific phase of modern business, the older institutions of learning must eliminate what seems needless...