Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team has been bewailed. At present the graduate committee are fully awake to the disheartening condition and are carefully investigating the reasons for the existing apathy. Much is needed before track at Harvard can be put on a firm, successful basis. Undoubtedly the two committees now at work will establish a real system for directing in a business like way the activities of the track team. The best of systems is merely a skeleton and must be supplemented with good administrators and eager workers. Today the yearly competition for the managers begins. Without good directors, men who are alive...
...arming our ships and convoying them, sinking submarines on sight: even though Germany declares war, we should on no account declare war on our part. It is the rights of neutrals to traverse the high seas in time of war that we wish to establish. If we stop at armed neutrality the issue is always clear. The warfare which might ensue would be of a purely defensive sort, and at the same time of the kind most effective against the submarines--which are the only part of Germany we have cause to fight. We should...
...final scheme for a constructive solution has been advanced. One policy alone seems fairly definite in the minds of the reformers, that the clubs as self-electing close corporations shall be abolished, and a thoroughly democratic system substituted in their place. In this way they hope to establish a wider basis for fellowship, where all men will meet on an equal basis, regardless of their social position and personal characteristics and build up a more wholesome social structure...
...main value of retaliation is to lessen injuries by discouraging them. But a war aiming to defend American lives or to establish international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems...
Section 3 of the platform states that "the rights of neutrals upon the seas cannot be established by a belligerent." That is precisely the issue and that is precisely why, after vainly telling Germany that she cannot establish our rights upon the seas, that we have been forced to sever relations...