Word: faces
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...face of all these unsatisfied needs the treasury of the Union is really facing exhaustion. Originally there was an endowment created by life memberships, which amounted to about $30,000; and in addition a gift of $10,000 from the class of '78, which is to be used for special purposes, one-third going to the library. The accumulated income raised the total to about $60,000; but the ever-increasing deficits which have existed since 1910 have consumed this increment, leaving now only $30,000 which is unrestricted. To pay this year's deficit the original principle will have...
...offering a specialized course in the tendencies and problems of business, the School accomplishes two definite ends. It is bringing to the attention of the undergraduates the questions he will have to face if he enters business, and at the same time presenting a valuable training to meet those questions. And equally important, the School is proving itself a very efficient employment bureau for those men who take advantage of the opportunity. Positions are secured for all the graduates in which there is ample chance for advancement. To start on $1,450 a year more than compensates for two years...
...iota of success has attended these efforts. At a recent meeting, the Faculty not only rejected all of the recommendations, but made no move to substitute anything in their stead. It seems, then, that the Faculty means to jog along in the same old way, in the face of persistent and almost unanimous opposition from students of all grades and interests...
...will go are doing it from any fondness for jingoism or militarism, or that they will prove a menace to the anti-militaristic principles of this country. I think that they realize what the CRIMSON so evidently does not realize,--the fact that our country is pitifully unprepared to face an actual crisis of any sort, demanding a display of armed force. It is not, unfortunately, a question of mere physical bravery, or even of patriotism in actual warfare, but a question of officers who know their business, of efficient guns, of ammunition to meet the demand...
...advocates of the military camps say that they also are hopeful, but that in the meantime we must be practical, we must face the situation as we find it. Ability to build a pontoon bridge, to "shoot straight", has a suggestion of practicality which it is hard to overcome. But one clear-sighted diplomat, one President Wilson, is of more practical worth for the actual preservation of peace than all our present navies and soldiers combined. As one correspondent has said, it is the voter who must ultimately decide this question, who must understand his own interests well enough...