Word: phasing
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...upon coming to Harvard from a strange land, to feel that he is an outsider, with few social interests in common with the native students. Unless such an attitude is checked at the start the foreigner will drift along through his college career without ever realizing an important phase of Harvard...
...entrance of the United States into the war at once raises a question as to the effect which that step will have upon our relations with Latin-America. Particularly significant from our point of view is the prospect of South American cooperation and even of actual alliance. This phase of the situation is suggested by two factors: first, the maritime interests of some of the Latin-American republics, which will tend to draw those countries into the war sooner or later in the same manner that the United States now finds itself involved; second, the presence of certain natural resources...
...influential group of sophomores announced that they would not accept invitations to the senior societies and declared war on the entire club system as extravagant, demoralizing and undemocratic. Since then more than seventy of their classmates have taken the same stand. On last Wednesday the struggle entered a new phase, when seven prominent seniors resigned from their clubs and joined the insurgent sophomores, as an open and vigorous protest against the system which they could not reform from the inside...
First, what is private honor? Its meanings are legion. But its aggressive phase is the feeling that deliberate injuries to one's pride or person or kin make requital dearer than life itself. This is so part of us that we instinctively scorn anyone who questions it. Yet is it a reliable guide, after all? History's variegated standards of honor prove no. Honor constrained the medieval knight to make quixotic fighting tours to glorify a lady whom he never saw. Honor dictated family feuds like that of the Montagues and Capulets. Honor involved private war after every injury. Today...
...visit to the University. Last December he spoke in Sanders Theatre and received such an enthusiastic reception that the Union management have arranged a second opportunity for members of the University to hear him speak. No definite subject has been given out but he will probably speak on some phase of England's share in the war and the responsibilities of this country in the present critical situation...