Word: asking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...known just at this time? The American public has not yet been informed of the reasons upon which this body acted. That they have a right to such knowledge before condemning two professors is another thing entirely. At the present, however, would it not be the wise way to ask the powers that be at Columbia why she followed such a course. When this challenge has been made, that institution of learning can decide as it sees fit. If it refuses to give out any word on the subject, then each individual has the right to judge as his convictions...
...untrained in case next summer's campaign be both the last one, though I hope it will, and also because it is worth while to do what others are doing." President Lowell compared Germany to a band of brigands who, after robbing the bank and shooting up the town, ask the posse that catches them to arbitrate. He declared that we are not fighting for terms but until the enemy throws up his hands, and that it is the duty of all to help make him throw up his hands...
...great fault, however, these chronic iconoclasts overlooked. The main business of colleges is teaching; not teaching; this or teaching that, but simply teaching. The colleges ask what is to be taught, and having been informed, they get the best men to be had in the world and teach as no other force can do. And so when war became upper-most in the minds of the American people, the colleges took up their torches to proceed in that direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those...
...would ask an opportunity to say a personal word concerning a large number of students who are prevented by one reason or another from entering the military or naval branches of Government service. Age, physical disqualifications--often of a minor nature--the wishes of parents, the special obligations of some students to their parents the lack of an imperative call on such men for patriotic service--all these reasons fully justify many men in holding steadily to their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or taking up other non-military work. I think we all must realize that...
...ask these men to leave Washington at a given date, to give up their valuable time to travelling--even were there no special crisis impending at the end of May--was impossible...