Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...knows exactly what to do with the German colonies. But that doesn't mean that they are to be laid waste so that no one will profit by them. They must be distributed or placed under international control. The same principle applies to the disposition of the German and Austrian warships. Destroying valuable property because of its potential ability to create ill feeling is nothing else than a cowardly action...
...cause for businessmen accepting so gladly a man who has worked his way through college. Unfortunately such a man, as a rule, has lost the benefit which the seclusion of college life offers. He would be the first to acknowledge this handicap. There is, however, a golden mean which should be adopted by each undergraduate. His capacity to learn is developed by his academic pursuits; his ability to compete can be developed in athletics. Athletics not only offer this course in competition, but they establish the man on firm physical basis. This ability can also be developed on the college...
...council, men who have an elementary knowledge of agriculture, sanitation and dairy work. We do not need a man who can project anything so much as a man who can teach the simple things that he already knows. What the Russians need is clean, healthy boy-life. It would mean a sacrifice perhaps of a year or two of a man's life, yet I can imagine no work from which he could reap greater rewards. The unselfish point of view of Y. M. C. A. has won friends all over Russia...
...College alone, and is properly open to the students in Radcliffe College. The first number opens with a story by a Radcliffe student. All of this should bring, if there is more than a vestige of democratic ambition in Cambridge, abundant life to the Harvard Magazine, and it should mean that young writers are to have life even more abundantly...
...chief argument of the opposition as set forth by those who have been most conspicuous in their attack on the proposal of a league of nations is as follows: the entry of the United States into such an agreement would mean ignoring completely the once timely injunction of Washington in 1796,throwing over the Monroe Doctrine of 1824 and becoming inextricably involved in a tangle of European jealousies and alliances in 1924. President Lowell once said that the league of nations is in no more danger of upsetting the Monroe Doctrine than it is of upsetting the price of sugar...