Word: governance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chiang Kai-shek, Generalissimo of the nominally democratic Nationalist Govern-ment at Nanking, make a spacious gesture, last week: He backed his brother-in-law, Finance Minister T. V. Soong, in promulgating a one-sentence exaggerated boast and flat defy to Chang Tso-lin, thus: "As the Nationalist Govern-ment controls sixteen of the twenty-one provinces of China, producing nearly 70% of the customs revenue, and as the authorities in control at Peking no longer repre- sent the legal successor of the former recognized Government, the Nationalist Government clearly cannot recognize the right of any other authorities independently...
...older statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which still govern the University, a reference is made to the "republic of letters," with the interests of which the University is identified, and it is into Harvard's part of the "republic of letters" that you are welcomed first of all. I hope you will find in it an inspiring home. None of us would care to attempt a definition of citizenship in such a republic. Certainly all of those who would claim it do not merit such distinction. Fortunately, it is a republic without either boundaries or territory and its immigrants...
Said the New York World (Democratic): "For the first time in four years one felt that under good leadership the party might once again shake itself together and earn the right to be considered fit to govern...
Four rules shall govern the contest. The competition is open to any one, and the essays may be of any length; they must be submitted to the judges on or before October 1, and all copy must be written on white linen paper without the signature of the author, but with some arbitrary symbol instead, a duplicate of which with the name of the author should be sent to the Lawyers Club. The trustees reserve the right to reject any or all manuscripts, and to publish the winning essays in the Michigan Law Review. Finally; the judges shall...
...Water, fire, and oil used to be our terrors, now they have become our servants. Even the thunderstorm is being used." Miss Royden then said that man has become a conquering spirit. He will not adapt himself to the world but will govern it. "A change has come, not into the universe or humanity; what has altered is the contact which is being established between the genius of man and the universe...