Word: establish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Without presuming to give advice on a problem which is essentially one for Yale alone, it would seem to the average student that the position of the News is no more than logical. To establish each department as a unit would be to strength both; and neither would be to strength both; and neither would lose touch, since the title of Yale University would, as it does now, include both "Sheff" and the college. This tendency toward simplification is but another example of the present Oxford movement. When colleges cease to fear the restrictions of names a great advance will...
Next day, Mr. Root gave his $25,000 check to establish an endowment fund for the magazine Foreign Affairs* a quarterly review published by the Council on Foreign Relations and edited by Professor Archibald Gary Coolidge of Harvard, and Hamilton Fish Armstrong...
Economists recalled that, before the invention and commercial success of artificial silks in the past few years, abortive efforts to transplant silk production from the Orient to the New World were periodic. Cortes introduced silkworms in Mexico. James I tried to establish them in Virginia in 1609. A law still on the books though long dead requires Virginia farmers to plant six mulberry trees per annum for seven years. Just before .the Revolution a great fever for growing silk swept the colonies. In 1771 President Stiles of Yale and Mrs. Stiles raised 3,000 silkworms and sent their produce...
...recent disclosure it has been shown that athletes at West Virginia Wesleyan have received as much as $500 for their services Shortly after the announcement the President and Board of Trustees ordered the curtailing of athletics. Funds formerly devoted to sports will serve to establish a new chair of theology. Presumably this drastic measure arose from a recognition of the fact that flagrant breaches of the amateur code like the payment of outstanding athletes are caused by the disproportionate emphasis which has been placed upon intercollegiate football in the colleges. Yet no measure could be more illogical...
Doubtless a liberal policy towards foreign students would lead to some abuses. A few aliens might gain access to the country under the guise of students and establish a permanent residence here. But by a careful police surveillance and system of registration these cases could be kept to a negligible minimum. More liberal laws and a different policy on the part of our official representative's abroad would be more in accordance with the cordial welcome extended to American students by foreign governments...