Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were successfully adjusted to meet the special needs growing out of the unusual war conditions in the autumn and the equally difficult period of transition to a normal basis that followed the Armistice. But it is more fitting to outline in a general way the year's activities and let the actual facts prove the success or failure of the Association's efforts...
...advise all men to keep up their full insurance policies. If you have made no payments since your discharge from the army, send in your back payments at once, before it is too late. Remember that you will surely want to be insured sooner or later, and do not let this opportunity which the Government is giving to every discharged soldier and sail or slip through your fingers. Full details concerning time and terms of conversion will be announced as soon as finally determined upon...
...liberal view of the Covenant, and considers it far from hopeless. He considers the Covenant as it stands an instrument of great practical power, but as yet far from a perfect one. If reports be true, President Wilson in Paris has already taken Senator Root's views into account. Let us profit by the fair and reasonable position which Mr. Root has taken and above all let us detach the League scheme from personalities as completely as he has done, and try to discuss as justly and disinterestedly its merits and defects...
...Yard Freshmen are to be given an opportunity to board with their fellows in Gore and Standish Halls. No mere matter of physical distance should deter them from taking advantage of this proferred chance to get better acquainted with their class; the benefits far outweigh any possible disadvantages. Let us not see 1922 go through college with a "Yard clique" distinct from the rest of the class...
...have made all other reforms, if the cost of living demands it, we shall, as heretofore, increase the salaries of these instructors. But we cannot afford bribes to keep their noses to useless grindstones. We shall still their whines and sap their shoddy patronage of puppy yellow journals, but let it be clearly understood we appreciate that they are incapable of sacrifice...