Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ambassadors, ministers, secretaries, and consuls. In state governments we are passing through an era of constitutional conventions. Various changes are urged as more adapted to our present-day conditions, while in city government we note a determination to concentrate power so as to have fewer abuses and to know whom to blame if any occur, and the strong executive type of charter and the commission form of government are being urged, or are already on trial...
...other hand, at the outbreak of the present world war, France had 1500 aeroplanes, most of them up-to-date machines, organized into squadrons of six. Whether the 10 aeroplanes at present available in the United States service are any one of them up-to-date machines, I know not. But certain it is that the requirements of military service are very exacting, and quite different from the demands of aviation considered only as a sport...
...know there is great dramatic possibility here; but I don't see any evidence that you in this country want a good theatre. If you did, you could have it; the material is here, much of it to come from Harvard. To me it is a very encouraging sign that so many of you are at heart interested in the drama, and that the opportunity is given to so many of you to study it under Professor Baker. But as things stand at the present time, with the financial side of the theatre so prominent...
...only valuable part of the Register is the list of clubs with their members. It is advisable that Freshmen have a means of knowing what clubs there are and who is in them. It is also convenient to know at what clubs men can be reached...
...well acquainted with socialism, I know the weaknesses of the movement," said Mrs. Kelley, "and Socialism's greatest fault is its present inactivity. There are two kinds of socialists, those who believe that the only way to promote their cause is through a revolution and those who consider socialism will come only through a long series of transitional steps...