Word: moves
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...United States should take the normal position of non-intervention, for a nation can not interfere between two others except for the most weighty reasons. In the present case, any intervention would be a peculiarly serious move, because it would be a challenge to the principle of arbitration. The policy of the United States has been to support international arbitration and she has been the foremost in having disputes adjusted in a peaceful method...
Another scheme is to move some of the larger courses into the afternoon hours, with the purpose of making these hours more popular. A third plan is to have an 8 o'clock hour, hold Chapel at 9 o'clock and then arrange the courses on from 9.30 o'clock. Aside from the objection that it might be difficult to get men to attend an 8 o'clock lecture, this last plan is opposed by those interested in the Chapel, who object to having the service placed between recitation hours...
...institutions whose circumstances are not similar to ours, and the study of law is no more a reason in itself against playing football than is the study of Latin or of mathematics. We are strong enough to act alone if we want to, but it is usually better to move in agreement with others and sometimes to let well enough alone. ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE...
...work on the New Lecture Hall at the corner of Oxford and Kirkland streets is now being done and the building will probably be ready for occupancy some time next week. There will be no formal opening of the Hall, but the classes which are to occupy it will move in gradually. The building is to be called The New Lecture Hall and the name of the donor is still to remain unknown...
...national feeling prompting interference is based on indirect information, not on direct knowledge--local interests arise from direct knowledge. The people of a section know the facts when an act of violence is committed by an individual and not by a body against whom states as such could not move. They know when that individual criminal is arrested and brought to justice; on the other hand, the people of the country hear of an act of violence; they may not know that the perpetrator is at once arrested, and in their ignorance of exact conditions are apt to favor action...