Word: establish
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...alumni of the College of William and Mary. And a modest enough plea for financial aid it is by comparison with the missions sought for other colleges--only $1,440,000 with which to raise the salaries of its teaching staff to an equality with industrial incomes; to establish a new professorship and make necessary additions to the college buildings...
...Division, and in addition, is opening its career with three distinct aims; to train inexperienced teachers and school officers; and to offer an opportunity for advanced study to experienced teachers and school officers; and to conduct a bureau of research in education. It is also planned to establish a few courses which will be open to undergraduates and which will count towards a College degree. In these courses education will be studied from the standpoint of the citizen. The school is, however, to be conducted as a strict graduate institution to which only the graduates of recognized colleges and scientific...
...many chapters of the treaties drawn up at Paris last year, the most definite and perhaps the most permanent are those which establish the territorial settlements. The economic provisions are in their nature temporary and subject to adjustment; the League of Nations has not yet been ratified by the United States; but the territorial provisions have already called new states into being and profoundly modified the frontiers of old ones. This side of the Paris Conference forms the chief subject of the new book by Professors Charles H. Haskins and Robert H. Lord ("Some Problems of the Peace Conference." Harvard...
...students point of view in conducting courses of instruction, but the idea that the action of a faculty committee in allowing a professor to resign is open to challenge by the student body is a novel one. We look with distrust upon the proposal of the News to establish a "student soviet" court...
Devotion to lost causes has never been a characteristic of Mexican political upheavals. Its absence, perhaps, may explain why Mexico has failed so far to establish a settled government. The greatest achievements in history have more than once been the outcome of lost causes. Contemporary observers may have spoken of Thermopylae or Valley Forgo as colossal futility, and branded Leonidas or Washington as stupid and obstinate for not deserting with their forces to the enemy the moment defeat seemed evident. But in both cases obstinacy, had its final result; and in both cases it was the "losing side" that...