Word: explain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...purpose of the meeting is to explain the Smileage plan, to show the good done by it and by similar work aboard, and to arouse an interest in the cause among the students of the University...
...classmen, and at the same time good for freshmen, would require abler inductive resources than the writer possesses to determine. Harvard and Yale, which stand rigidly against university teams made up of upper classmen, have permitted their freshmen to organize and conduct intercollegiate contests and have never attempted to explain this inconsistency. Intramural sport is an excellent, in fact a vitally necessary, adjunct to college life, but there is reason to believe that without the stimulus of intercollegiate competition on the part of 'varsity teams the interest of students in athletics wanes, with the result that the general participation...
...proposal to save coal by advancing all College engagements by one hour. This proposal, put forward by the Student Council, is to be voted on next week by the student body. May I suggest that if the Student Council desires a large affirmative vote, it would do well to explain somewhat explicitly in these columns just how the change of hours would produce the desired economy...
...Navy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, who will speak on the Navy in the New Lecture Hall at five o'clock this afternoon. He is a young man and knows how to talk to younger men. He is one of the progressive influences in our navy and knows how to explain his subject. What is more remarkable is that he has something remarkable to tell. With the war on, the navy demands our interest, whether or not it has been directed that way before. Our naval program, in the planning of which Secretary Roosevelt was invaluable, promises to lift...
...What are we fighting for?" To these few as well as the Germans, the President has given a definite reply; his fourteen demands are clear and to the point and they, combined with Lloyd George's aims, as outlined in his last speech to the trade unionists, explain the Allied cause...