Word: discusses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Garfield then turned to discuss the relations between Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft. The policies overwhelmingly approved by the people in the election of 1908 were those of Roosevelt and the Progressives, conservation, corporation control, and tariff reduction. In each of these Taft has failed to carry on his predecessor's policy or to fulfill the promises of himself or of the Republican party. He has taken reactionaries as political advisers and has misused his executive power, as he afterwards admitted, by not heeding the recommendations of appointment made by progressive Senators...
...instrumental in getting the confession of the dynamiters. He became the object of attack of both capital and labor, and though denounced by both, he has been travelling about the country all winter explaining capital to labor and labor to capital. His address this evening, in which he will discuss the McNamara case from the standpoint opposite that which Detective Burns took, promises to be startling. He invites men to ask questions after the lecture...
...Harvard's Duty" seems to the essayist to be the development of gentlemen politicians"; but from rather an illogical premise that "politics should be a career and not a business", the writer quickly comes to earth and emphasizes the paucity of political discussion in the University. We have, as he says, the Taft Club and the La Follette Club, but neither organization takes the trouble to discuss in open debate with the other the merits of its particular candidate; much less to meet the members of the Democratic Clubs or the Socialist Club. In the light of such conditions...
...efficiency. With shade protection snow on the mountains melts gradually and feeds the streams uniformly; where there is no shade, there is a period of flood followed by a period of drought and under these conditions the efficiency of the stream flow is greatly lessened. Professor Swain will discuss the various elements in this relation...
...Shorey did not discuss the differences between the Age of Pericles and modern times, but revealed the life in Athens by pointing out the features of its similarity with modern life. The first Persian war stirred the Athenians to the supreme manifestation of their genius. Their indominatable spirit in the attempt to build the fairest of cities was curbed by the destructive period of the thirty years war. Although the shadow of war was constantly upon the Athenians, they accomplished in eighty years the building of great cities containing wonderful specimens of art; the establishing of a democratic machinery...