Word: transient
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officer will desire, to become affiliated with one "camp," which includes his own home town, rather than with a college group that lasts only the four years of his stay in Cambridge. The value of the separate units will lie in their permanence; a Harvard Legion would have a transient membership. Then, too, we doubt the interest which the average student, occupied with many other activities, would take in such a branch organization. Let us support, the American Legion by all means, but let us support the founding of permanent local posts rather than create subordinate branches in the colleges...
With firm confidence in the ultimate mercy of that Providence which regulates all things transient and trivial in the minds of men, I enter the lists of the educational combat as an humble suppliant, who only desires to know why these things...
Tonight the Freshman class meets together for the first time in its history, the beginning of innumerable reunions as long as the lives of the members of the class shall last. There will be speech-making, which may be borne, and refreshments, which are pleasant though transient, and acquaintanship to mark the beginning of friendship...
...have made the supreme sacrifice for a foreign land. The Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship is a fitting testimonial to the unselfish generosity which inspired him who gave all that he had to help in the service of France. Monuments of bronze or stone are at best only transient. But through such a memorial as this the name of one among the many members of the University who have died either fighting or working for another country as loyally as they would for their own will be made permanent...
...these questions of foreign policy, after all, are only transient. The most important issue in the present campaign is, as I have started out by saying whether liberal or reactionary ideals are to triumph. That is what the campaign ought to decide. S. D. SMOLEV...