Word: making
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After years of "shirtsleeve diplomacy" and ambassadorial mediocrity, such improvements as are indicated by the exporters must make a strong appeal to the reason of every college man and every American who holds at heart the prestige of his country among the nations of the world...
...benefit of those students who are remaining in Cambridge during the Christmas recess, the Phillips Brooks House will be open daily except Sundays from 8 to 5. All men in the University are cordially invited to make use of the House...
Plans for the Harvard Squash Club are maturing rapidly toward concrete results in teams and schedules. It is planned to have the headquarters of the club in the room in Randolph Gymnasium formerly used as an office by Dr. Sargent, where fittings to make it more like a club-room will be arranged...
Surely "My country, right or wrong," cannot be the highest moral standard! Say rather with Karl Shurz: "My Country right or wrong . . . if wrong, to make right." ARTHUR NEWELL MOORE...
...Philosophy of Beauty." This is treading on rather dangerous aesthetic ground since the word Beauty is by Definition (thought not by usage) in its own sphere. The point is best described by the difference between connotation and detonation. Does, for instance, the sight of a beautiful limousine make a man feel pious? Mr. Whitman is inclined to substitute attribute for subject. Even so, the writer has known or heard of few men who come out of aesthetic arguments unscathed...