Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...publicly scored is out of place at this time. In any crisis, national unity is preserved with difficulty. This task becomes well nigh impossible where narrow men lies in wait to pull down others who are serving, because these others who are serving, because theses others hold different views. The men managing the various branches of the War Department must be the best obtainable. The Senate Committee will look to see if the men at he helm now are the best. If they are not, they shall be replaced; not because the spoils system has been revived in war time...
...been opened up. Through an easy approach and a ready withdrawal it has been made possible to seize the Holy city in its integrity. Unlike Rheims and other centres of mediaeval Christianity, the very home of our religion has escaped destruction. Whether the refusal of the Turks to hold this place was due to military weakness or to respect for the city, the British have gained with facility what has long been fought for. As they have been successful against the Moslems in the last few campaigns, so they will be in keeping this new prize. The capture of Jerusalem...
Yale was willing to have the debate but wished it to be extemporaneous, while the University and Princeton were in favor of having the subject for the debate announced six weeks in advance, as in previous years. A compromise was finally made by which it was agreed to hold the debate some time in March and to announce the question two weeks before the day of the actual debate. As usual the three colleges will exchange teams to argue on each side of the question...
...hold that these resolutions will straightway make college athletics spotless. Far from it. But they will give us a good start on a good road. The fact that the National Association is tending toward the views of this whom we regarded as mere theorists a few years ago would lead us to believe no small changes is coming. The above three changes would not be opposed by the members of teams themselves. Their effect will take away none of the enjoyment or the value of sport. They will simply remove collegiate athletics a little farther from the realms of professionalism...
...University, as usual, has the greatest number of graduates in the Law School, but is followed by Princeton this year in the place of Yale, which has held second place for several years. The other colleges hold approximately the same relative positions as heretofore...