Word: met
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...history textbooks) issues of the War of 1812 was the movement (advocated by Henry Clay and other U. S. fire-eaters) for the annexation of Canada. During the war, however, the U. S. Canadian operations were a dismal failure, relieved chiefly by Perry's famed "We have met the enemy and they are ours" victory on Lake Erie...
...support. Therefore it must submit to at least a temporary halt. There are, however, other avenues of approach to this problem. Eventually there will come a change in eating habits in Harvard University; realizing this, the CRIMSON has tried to prepare for that change. That its essay has not met with success is in no way a proof that its efforts have been misdirected...
...Omaha, Neb., the national council of the Congregational Church met for conference last week; elected President Ozora S. Davis of Chicago Theological Seminary moderator, onetime Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado vice moderator, President Calvin Coolidge honorary moderator (for the third time); organized the Congregationalists Home Board to perpetrate home missions, church building, Sunday school extension, educational and publishing work theretofore handled by separate boards; heard a committee recommend a merger of Congregationalists with Universalists, Christians, United Brethern, Brethern and Methodist Protestants...
...number of students and in the prestige of the School. But, as Dean Donham remarked when he took charge of the School in 1920, its success, in the terms implied in 1908, had created new and serious problems both of physical and personnel equipment. These problems have been met with remarkable skill and daring energy. The planning vision of Dean Donham and the wonderful generosity of Mr. Baker have combined to raise an edifice surpassing the dreams of those who drew the first lines less than twenty years...
...taught that has been formulated into anything like teaching--that the rest will come and until then one must be content with the rudiments. This is possibly true but such an explanation does not account for the fact that the requirements for a Business School degree are to be met in only two years time. If the second year, which in strict proportion should be as valuable as the first and which in theory should be even more so, is only a repetition of the beginning, then it is unnecessary and undosirable. The probabilities are, however, that the present length...