Word: defending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letters as grave as war we have no choice. In order to play our part effectively in the future, in order properly to defend ourselves, in order to be able effectively to work for peace, we must keep our treaty navy adequately maintained and properly manned. This cannot be emphasized too strongly...
...native sons training at Camp X--". The C. M. T. C. training, valuable in itself, can only hope to develop men well versed in the fundamentals of elementary drill and physical development,--in a month nothing more is possible. Congressmen, who, having voted for a diminutive army, attempt to defend their action by pointing to the C. M. T. C. students as "our able defenders of the future," are not only deceiving their constituents, but themselves. In these days of wars and rumors of wars, such deception is, to put it mildly, foolish, for to develop a false trust...
...fixed content worthy of not and respect, we shall have cleared out minds of just so much rubbish. Gentlemen's clubs for the rich, and outrank schools for the profession and trades that is an immense gain in clarification. The business of the college will be to defend the existing order (if it will stay still long enough to be called "existing") and to prepare the youth to make an honest living in it. That is clear and admirable. There is the future of the "college". By deliberately working along these line, in the light of a definite purpose...
...defend Homer, however, is as absurd today as it would be for modern theologians to argue on the number of angels who can dance on the point of a needle. It is no longer a matter of defense or attack, it is a matter of choice. There are always some who are interested enough to prefer Horace to bridge or Sophocles to A. H. Woods, to whom Athens is as real as Broadway. Literature is safe in their hands. Meanwhile the rest of us rush on regardless of the delights they offer us, to look for happiness in State Street...
...journalists of Cambridge and with the future politicians whose forum is the Union, and with such rapidity that the processes of mental adjustment became almost painful. Any American who goes to England now for a year will necessarily learn much about his own country through being obliged to defend many of her actions...