Word: maintaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nobody knows what an "adequate" army is. How small an army we can maintain depends on how small an army we can induce each other nation to maintain. We can hardly achieve that end by this disingenuous grab at the principle of conscription, together with much talk of an altogether hypothetical "necessity...
...make university instruction a democratic institution and still to maintain it at its present high level is the chief difficulty in the broadening of education. France is now seeking the means whereby it can open the doors of the university to all men worthy of entrance and able to profit thereby...
...aggregation overwhelmed the University with an opening attack in the first half which need them their five points before Harvard could stiffen its defense. During the second half the Orange eleven was almost entirely on the defensive and, despite the fact that the University outplayed them, was able to maintain their lead...
...peace is preserved by having each nation try to be stronger than every other or all others was abandoned as Utopian quite early in human history, and replaced by that of the Balance of Bower. This second system having failed egregiously in 1914, it is proposed to have nations maintain minimum armies and co-operate to resist aggression. A large body of American opinion however feels, as does the Editor of the CRIMSON, that, while the rest of the world should be encouraged to adopt the third system, America should revert to the first. The more fashionable way of working...
...objects of this year's drive include the renewal of present memberships and the enrolling of new members, so that $15,000,000 may be raised with which to make good the Red Cross pledges to devastated countries, to maintain a state of preparedness at home against epidemics and disasters, and to aid in the projected constructive health program...