Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advocates of the proposed system of universal military training realize that not one of our foreign wars was undertaken in self-defence, and that our country has never been attacked, even when its navy was almost a minus quantity? Again, shall we disregard the testimony of such military experts as General Erasmus Weaver, who has assured the House Committee on Military Affairs that our coast defences are inferior to none in the world, or shall we lose eight of our system of mines, submarines and fortifications, which Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declares make "a navy almost...
...Republic, favor less universal plans of defence on grounds of expediency and effectiveness. Mistaken though the CRIMSON believes such views to be, their exponents are nevertheless deserving of due respect. But what shall be said of the slackers, and it is to be feared that they are not lacking even in our colleges, who oppose military training because of a deficient sense of obligation for their country's needs? These are the men who think less of what they can give to their country than of what they can get out of their country; who, while claiming all the ample...
...preparedness is more than a mere hasty expression of opinion. It is an opinion which Harvard stands ready to translate, has indeed already translated, into actual deeds. Her acts no less than her words have proved that she is more than willing to bear her full share of even the most comprehensive plan for national defence...
...nicely on our flood tide of national economic prosperity. With sales at its three stores amounting to more than $300,000, and with net earnings of nearly $32,000 on half the year's business, there seems to be no danger of a shrunken dividend in the near future. Even better still, these figures demonstrate the soundness of the co-operative principle and prove that the profit-sharing plan can more than hold its own with any other plan of retail business when given a fair opportunity...
...Junior Dance has been known since time and the Junior Class began, or thereabouts, as the most festive occasion of the third classman's usual festive season. An invitation to it has been the ultimate heaven of every debutante; and even those proud and few chosen Seniors who are admitted have felt themselves rejuvenated in memory of more youthful and frolicsome days. Even the proletariat thronging the veranda of the Union and peering hopelessly within, has felt itself part of the glories of the Juniors' Valhalla...