Word: torning
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...many long and weary months of war are bound to cause a shifting of emphasis from the immaterial ideal with which we entered the war to the material results of victory. We are more apt to stress the importance of winning or losing a few miles of shell torn fields in northern France than of preventing the formation of a Mitteleuropa. Casualty lists and the first complaints at heavy taxes will deaden our interest in a possibly far-distant victory. Yet whether we believe in a military decision, or in a peace without victory as the solution...
...dignified and stolidly established order of things is being torn to little shred a while we look on and yaw. There are some men in college, some men in their third year in Harvard College, who haven't much idea what it is all about, and are really quite bored with the whole affair. In a spirit of all brotherhood we advise such men not to attempt to enter the editorial competition...
...when the easterly wing was added Gore Hall contained the Harvard Library until 1913. And being then long outgrown was torn down to make place for the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library. This tablet has been placed here by the University Library Committee...
...draft bill, so bitterly fought in Congress, and made a law only against the uproarious dissent of various peace advocates and upholders of the national honor, seems already to have worked some large effect, although not one conscript has been called to the front, nor one single boy been torn away from the cherishing arms of his mother...
...quadrangle, dormitories will be built with accommodations sufficient to take care of freshman classes for many years to come. It is proposed to make these buildings the most modern and best constructed in any American university plant. It is understood that the tenants of the buildings which must be torn down have been notified that their leases will not be renewed after June, 1917. The doomed structures include the dormitory known as Pierson Hall on York street; the D. K. E. Clubhouse, the historic old gymnasium, the university power plant, the psychological laboratory and library, the offices of the Yale...