Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...world's commerce, if incidentally for the specific military and commercial advantage of the taker. Much criticism was heaped upon Mr. Roosevelt for his procedure, but he had to decide whether we would take possession of the ends of the railroad on the Isthmus and keep the traffic clear, or whether we would stand back and let those Southern gentlemen cut each others' throats for an indefinite time and destroy whatever, remnant of our property and our interests we had there. Roosevelt had to do exactly as he did, or the only alternative would have been an indefinite duration...
Certain graduate opinion may incline toward the view that the physical development of large numbers of men is of greater importance than the defeat of Harvard and Princeton, but we feel that a series of defeats at their hands would quickly make clear the need of victory for its own sake and for its general stimulus to sport as a whole. --Yale News...
...Ernst '08, formerly in charge of the South Bay Union, then told of his experiences with boys' clubs, characterizing social service work as a "revelation into the art of leadership." He said that it was perhaps harder than military service in that the ultimate purpose was not so clear, and urged men to take it up in order to learn the real secret of life--service. "Social welfare work is a laboratory for working out ideas conceived in the classroom here...
...value of this course to be enhanced by introducing compulsory training in "military" English? Is it by reading the literary masterpices in military science and tactics, and patterning our style of writing after theirs that we are to obtain the knowledge that will enable us to express ourselves in clear, coherent, and elegent English? Or are we to believe that America has become so thoroughly infused with the spirit of militarism that the people cannot communicate their thoughts to one another save by the use of the terse and laconic expressions that form the working vocabulary of a commanding officer...
...live and work. In fact, this generation will have its share, and a large one, in solving many of these problems. The same impulse for service that filled the training camps from April 1917 until November 1918 is now making another demand. The call to duty is just as clear now as it was then...