Word: acted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present senior class has started an innovation by taking hold of the problem while it is still an undergraduate body. In former years various business houses have tried to get graduates, but there has been no way to reach the undergraduates except individually. The new system is expected to act as a medium of communication between...
...strengthening of a nation's military establishment incites either nations to do likewise; so that, not only are the resources of all the countries concerned taxed to the utmost, in the vain hope of successfully vying with one another in the up building of armaments, but the very act of increasing a country's military forces necessarily breeds suspicion in the minds of its neighbors, and inevitably results, sooner or later, in an armed clash. Thus Japanese and Australian militarism were given a decided impetus by President Roosevelt's somewhat jingoistic performance a few years ago, in sending our navy...
...increase of our army to moderate size (which is all that the universal training advocates urge) would add incalculable weight to his proposal. If we should continue with a military force too weak to protect our own borders, when the need of enforcing peace arose, other nations would act, while we lent our moral support. History seems to show that peace will never be kept by morals alone...
...opposing the Huns, and the German boy who was called to his colors. No distinction is made between the cause of the allies and the cause of Germany. The monument celebrates both causes indifferently. It approves the invasion of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania by the same act and in the same degree that it approves the men whom Harvard pretends to be proud of--her automobile drivers, soldiers and aviators, who died in true and eternal glory fighting for the right against wrong...
...action of the corporation was taken by a solemn, specific, legally binding resolution which will oblige the monument t be built unless the corporation by some act s solemn, as specific, and as legally-binding shall rescind the resolution and return the money already raised to the subscribers. --JOHN JAY CHAPMAN...