Word: establishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States and Mexico first intervened jointly, in Central America, in 1906 stated Professor Haring. "Our purpose was to re-establish peace between Guatemala and Salvador. In 1907 Nicaragua and Honduras went to war and the United States and Mexico again mediated, the countries agreeing to submit future disputes to the arbitration of the mediating powers. This was followed by the Washington treaties of 1907. We were trying to establish peace in Central America...
...marines were withdrawn under the condition that Nicaragua establish a constabulary", Professor Haring went on. "Shortly afterwards an election was held and the former liberal party came into power. The American government recognized the new regime. In the spring of 1925, the conservatives started a revolution and put themselves in control. What has happened since then has already been explained in the CRIMSON...
Nothing, of course, can be done without the consent of the Eliot family. But sooner or later the proposal will gain headway to establish either an Eliot Museum or to dedicate some spot or structure to the great President's memory. The house in which he lived for so many years in Cambridge is not, like the Longfellow house, one of the architectural landmarks of the city. It lacks the charm of setting of the pre-Revolutionary houses along Brattle Street...
...particularly, between the college and the alumni. He has to bridge the gap between certain of the alumni who want a bigger and better football team and certain of the faculty who would like to abolish the football team altogether. Whatever his personal convictions may be, he has to establish the golden mean between, not only two, but often half a dozen discordant-factions. On first thought it would seem that the logical remedy for the anomalous position of the college president were to divide his office between two persons, as it is divided in England between the president...
...there seems to have been a considerable amount of uncertainty and disquietude expressed recently in your department devoted to letters from readers as to my name and present venue, I am enclosing you separately copy of my Annual Report on this institution which may help to establish the facts, and also will, I am sure, prove interesting to you as a penological document...