Word: compels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...formally announced at the meeting of the Athletic Committee held last evening. This action of Haughton's is a great source of satisfaction to the whole University, since it was feared that the new business duties which have devolved upon him as president of the Boston Braves would compel him to give up coaching the University team. Coach Haughton's relation with next year's eleven is of vital importance, for the successful system of coaching which he has instituted requires just such a man as he is to carry it out. With Leary as an assistant, Coach Haughton will...
...main feature of the league's proposals, which is that joint military forces of a league of the great powers be used to compel nations to arbitrate their disputes before going to war, was originated by President Lowell...
...This work, however, is too big for one or two men to handle. There should be one responsible individual chairman of a committee of say five or six men. Each of these men should be responsible for the collectors and collection in certain specified dormitories. It is unfair to compel one man to give up two or three whole afternoons to this work when it could be done just as well by dividing it among a number. Perhaps a larger collection would be obtained by having more men responsible...
...arms is the only ultimate solution for international problems, why hesitate to appeal thereto? Why, for instance, do all the nations of Europe seek to justify themselves before each other and the world by claiming to be waging a purely defensive war? If the opinion of the world can compel men to fight according to rule, to murder and pillage like Christian gentlemen, why can it not compel them to settle their differences according to reason and with-out fighting? He is blind indeed to modern thought who seeks to argue from the world of a century and more...
...same may be said of the orals, which are not notable for their popularity but which cannot be escaped even by those who like them lest. However, it would be a task not lightly to be undertaken to round up a thousand or more rebellious young men and compel them to mark time and shoulder arms a couple of times a week...