Word: approached
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Lowell and Dean Yeomans will address the meeting from an academic to point of view. Their object will be to point out the relation between success in college today and ability to win out in the crises of tomorrow. Mr. Clark, on the other hand, will approach the subject from an industrial standpoint, and will state the business and manufacturing sides of the question. In his work with the Plymouth Cordage Company and several important mining properties in Mexico, he has had wide experience with very successful labor propositions, and is, therefore, highly qualified to represent the industrial world...
Richard Bennett is well filled to approach the problem of "Smileage" from the side pertaining to the Stage, for he has been an ardent follower of the cause since a group of actors suggested the plan to the authorities, after seeing its counterpart working with great success abroad...
...Jerusalem seems assured. Unlike many places captured in war, this has suffered no bombardment, much to the satisfaction of all who wish the preservation of the relies of the past. A field of historical research undamaged by shell-fire and mines has been opened up. Through an easy approach and a ready withdrawal it has been made possible to seize the Holy city in its integrity. Unlike Rheims and other centres of mediaeval Christianity, the very home of our religion has escaped destruction. Whether the refusal of the Turks to hold this place was due to military weakness...
Taking the figures of male enrolment alone, the decrease is seen to approach 25 per cent. It must be remembered that such proportion of losses is as nothing to the reductions which institutions abroad have undergone. From them come reports that 85 or 90 per cent of all their undergraduates are at the front...
...this year there is another reason for better rates, which excluding all other considerations should determine the commission to grant them. That is the war need of the government. Daniel Willard, the Chairman of Council of National Defense, in sounding the warning against permitting the railroads to approach exhaustion, pointed out the terrible consequences that had happened in France where such a condition had been allowed to take place. If the carriers of the nation decrease in efficiency, the whole industrial system will be tied up and the war work of the government jeopardized. From fairness to the railroads...