Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present the future of the Union is undecided, but there seems no doubt but that it will become a permanent institution. It is merely a Question as to whether it will be developed into a central information bureau for all university men abroad, supplying general advice on living in France and holding regular meetings, receptions, and dinners, or whether it will become an ordinary university club with rooms and restaurant, and a permanent resident representative of American universities as a whole. At any rate, the main object of the Union from now on will be to promote research by American...
...eliminate this serous possibility of an over-supply of officers in some branches, and an under-supply in others, some definite form of proportioning must eventually be resorted to, which of course implies a control over schools by a central authority that is non-existent at the present time. As the quotation given previously suggests, the University is large enough to maintain a number of units representing the different divisions of service. However, for the sake of thoroughness and efficiency, smaller schools would necessarily be limited in the number of different units which they could profitably estabish...
President Lowell and Senator Lodge are relatively of the same attitude on the League of Nations as were Webster and Hayne in their famous debate over the theory of "states' rights." In his life of Webster, Senator Lodge says that Webster's argument on the supremacy of the central government was historically unsound. He asserts that in 1787-88 "there was not a man in the country . . . who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the states, and from which each and every state had the right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very...
...University will take an active part in the new drive for $500,000 instituted by the Central New England Sanatorium. Through the efforts of Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch '75, a University team consisting of ten men have been appointed. These men will canvass the University for the ten days of the drive, which begins today at one o'clock...
...Washington and Jefferson applied to the conditions and times of Washington and Jefferson. The Monroe Doctrine was necessary when it was possible for the United States-to keep out of world politics. A country like ours, with possessions in Asia, in the North Pacific, in the Caribbean, in Central America, simply cannot carry out a policy of isolation. Nor can the richest country in the world, with enormous products and exports, with nearly fifteen million foreign born persons living within our boundaries, communicating daily with swift ships to all parts of the world, bound in a network of cables...