Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Everyone abhors war and desires permanent world peace. But the Bok Peace Plan, if adopted, would not meet our desire.
"Out law War;" the Bok Peace Plan; numerous other peace plans including that of the Christian Science Monitor; the pledge of the student delegates at Indianapolis not to take part in any future wars--with all these intellectual microbes in the air at once it is a fair bet that...
The ballot of the faculty was so incomplete as to be of little significance. The returns show only 37 faculty members voting. These were about evenly divided between the desire for rigorous enforcement and the desire for wines and beer.
But in spite of logic, which says clearly enough that if no one will fight there can be no war, Major Beith and those who argue with him, have their feet firmly planted on the unassailable fact that there are still plenty of people who will fight with great joy...
"On this account," he explained, "it is being revived this year when the interest in the visits of the debaters from Oxford and the discussions of the Harvard Debating Union seem to indicate the desire for systematic training in the principles and practice of debate."