Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale College, although not Sheffield, has ratified a proposal of the Student Council to limit the number of offices which an individual may hold will arouse wide-spread interest. Such a policy has long been in vogue in some preparatory schools and western universities. The exponents of the system defend it on the ground that it tends to efficiency in the administration of undergraduate activities in that it restrains a man from undertaking more than he can successfully accomplish. The benefits of experience in management are more equally distributed, and studies are said to receive more attention by virtue...
...League of Nations tempts us constantly to forget: namely, that though war may be restricted, reduced in intensity, limited in size and scope, it can never be forever eradicated from this planet as long as man remains warm-blooded, and ideals and principles of right endure for him to defend...
...series of naval courses at the University adds one more opportunity for college men to show themselves ready to respond to the call of the times. The government is now fully awake to the imperative need for the nation so to prepare itself that it shall be capable to defend its people at all times from the ravages of an unexpected enemy...
...units in all the colleges and universities of the country is merely enlarging the scope of service for trained men. If we attribute our advances to the institutions under which we live, then we must be ready to uphold those institutions for what the advances are worth. Preparedness to defend with arms is the natural complement to ability to promote with judgment and foresight, and the man who develops the one at the expense of the other, the man who builds up a beautiful country without providing for its security, evidences a surprising lack of that judgment and foresight...
...case, they who undertake to defend civilization against its enemies must understand the grounds of the accusation. They must also know what civilization has to say for itself on economic grounds. In short, they must understand our industrial system, and know wherein it is strong and wherein it is weak, wherein it may be improved and to what extent it must be reformed. This presents a large field of study for the student of economics...