Word: consents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sufficiently vivid cavalry, experience. A. K. Train has discovered the possibility of producing a Punch-like essay by exploiting philosophy and animatism. Mr. Train might do a public service by popularizing 'Butler's vision of the machines that came alive, provided he would at the same time consent to suppress all but the most delicate of his puns. In S. B. Colby's essay on "Keeping an Open Mind," I notice a curious and probably involuntary defect of style, a battering succession of iambic verses...
...performance of her obligations to bur allies, and breed anarchy where stability is of all things o be desired. Thirdly, Congress, by imposing terms on Germany, proposed virtually to negotiate a treaty of peace, which power, under the Constitution, is delegated to the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate...
...Society further announces that this spring it will train three undergraduates who have never before flown, to qualify as pilots. The men chosen, preferably lower classmen, must be physically qualified to fly and must have their parents' consent. Men who attend some ground school during the war--such as the Technology school--but did not get to a flying field before the armistice, will be given first preference in selecting aspirants. As the Society will be under considerable expense in giving this training, the men chosen will be obliged to share in the expense. The cost to them, however, will...
...Building may be converted into a rifle range. The expense of this would be small, but the advantages great, for there would be a home range for the practice of the sharpshooters, which would be convenient for all. The Freshman Physical Training Department and Captain Goetz have given their consent to this plan, and now only the permission of the H. A. A. is needed...
...regard the alien as a being apart; and he is prone to work out his own plans for the alien's salvation, without knowing much about the workings of the alien's mind. But a man cannot be cured of his ills, either physical or mental, without his own consent and active assistance. If we are to solve the problem of the foreign-born population, it can only be by enlisting their aid. Unless they understand exactly our aims and our motives, and lend their sympathy and co-operation, no program of "Americanization" can succeed...