Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Moreover, in our foreign relations we must maintain a national integrity. An Eastern invasion of Russia, no matter how strong the call of necessity, would indeed involve a breach of faith. We have no quarrel with the Russian people. A Japanese army, at the most, could penetrate but a few of the many miles toward offering an active opposition to the Central Powers. A Japanese invasion could only be a blow in the dark at Russia, a nation convulsed in the enormity of its own problems, certainly not an enemy of the Allied cause...
...statement yesterday when questioned concerning this new plan of the War Department: "This office has as yet no advices as to the probable action of the War Department regarding future training camps. Judging from experience, however, it would seem that the War Department will give its directions in the matter very shortly before they are expected to be executed. All young men, therefor, with aspirations to attend training camps must have their lamps burning and be prepared to go forth at once, since when the summons comes, time for further preparation will have passed...
...advisory committee stated that no decision had been reached as yet in regard to the matter of arranging an intercollegiate meet for freshmen, but the matter is under consideration. Other important items of business included the election of the University of Pittsburgh to membership in the association, and the decision of the Pittsburgh delegates to send a team to the intercollegiate games. Although the representative from California and Leland Stanford asked that, in consideration of war conditions and the distance of those universities from Philadelphia, the rule providing for the exclusion from membership of colleges which are not represented...
...will learn their mistake. Trotsky will pass from the stage and his book will likewise pass, for it has neither literary, historical or inspirational value. Only for one reason is it worth reading, to find out what international socialists are thinking about the war. This, however, is no unimportant matter, because the contest of the proletariat against capitalism is world-wide. Whoever with radical sympathy reads the book with its destructive tone should also read the constructive political platform of the British Labor Party, now in the making. Much may be said in favor of international policies, but internationalism without...
...convention will also decide whether there will be an intercollegiate freshman meet in the East this year; there is still considerable doubt about the matter. The impression has been generally given by recent newspaper articles that the annual freshman meet would be staged at the University this season, but the track management emphatically denies this. It is quite likely that the convention will also make several changes in the constitution and by laws of the association...