Word: coming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...benefit accruing to the Endowment Fund, such a trip would undoubtedly raise the name of the University throughout the country. In times past, Harvard was content to rest on its worth alone. Those who came to test that worth were welcome, but no effort was made to encourage their coming. As a consequence, only the ones who lived nearby did come here, and the charge of sectionalism was made against the University. In the last fifteen years, due to the work of the Harvard Clubs, the cause for the prejudice was largely overcome. But the words of these loyal graduates...
...Though there never was a time when production meant so much to the world, capital and labor bicker and brawl. This cannot go on. The new party shows that the crisis is at hand. It can be averted, but not by any half-way measures. Employer and workingman must come to an understanding; and it looks as if the employer would have to take the first step, lest a worse thing befall him than the mere injury to his pride...
...forced to play in all this mess. The purpose of the meeting is to crystallize public opinion in Cambridge, and to make the people who have been blocking the Treaty see that it is the will of the country that they forget their petty squabbles and peanut politics and come to an agreement that will bring the Treaty into operation as quickly as possible. On Monday, the Senate reconvenes, and it is the intention of the would be assassins to block any action on the Treaty of Versailles. They talk of setting internal troubles, letting the matter of the ratification...
...this wasn't satisfactory. We come to the indoor novel again. The modern man doesn't want a book where the people are sure to be married; he wants a story where the people can't get married because they're married already. His story always begins in cabaret where 'The Man' meets the 'Wife of the Other Man' what a fascination those words have for him! The point of the modern novel is to get these two into some delicate position, we used to call it indelicate. The proper situation is this: The Man must walk by accident...
...those who believe that the opposing parties at Washington should compromise and agree upon some form of immediate action are asked by the Committee to come to the meeting, in order that Cambridge may speak to the Government with one voice...