Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yost-long before Little graduated from Harvard College Fielding H. Yost was dreaming, planning and working out Michigan University's present Athletic Plant. It is not finished yet, but every bit of it has been copyrighted in the brain and heart of Yost. President Little, doubtless, "took several ideas to Michigan," but the only idea concerning athletics at Michigan which can rightfully be claimed by Little is the woefully impractical and weak idea of the University having two football teams. Some real enthusiasm might have been engendered had the Big Ten Universities all put Freshmen football teams into contest...
Senator Reed's amendment (adopted) endorsed the idea of some new freedom-of-the-seas treaties, to be negotiated before the next naval disarmament conference...
...Briand renunciation of war treaty-its toothless state having been remarked by many-was formally begun in the Senate by lean little Senator Capper of Kansas. He popped up with a resolution-doubt-less put in his hand by potent peace publicists-a resolution of large international implications. The idea involved was an ancient one-to get the nations to agree to lay a munitions embargo upon nations daring to violate the treaty...
...statesmen know, the League of Nations covenant already embodies the munitions embargo idea. So-called "irrec-oncilables," who kept the U. S. out of the League, last week stirred uneasily when they read the Capper resolution. Why, they asked, should a great U. S. industry be stifled just to pacify the quarrels of other nations...
...fact that I have not read in the papers or periodicals any mention of any attempt having been made to start a movement toward the erection of a Museum of Peace, prompts me to write to ask if such a Museum has not been considered and if not your idea as to the practicability...