Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unparalleled in this country in time of peace for increasing our military strength. The European cataclysm should arouse all thinking men to an intense desire to contribute somewhat, no matter how little, for the keeping of both our own nation and the world from another such disaster. But the paramount lesson of this war is not the need of attempting to insure for victory in the event of war; we must insure against war itself. The road to be travelled is long; complete success must depend on the development of international law and political unity in some form...
...trustee does to the property he has in trust. A director, therefore, should make no contracts with any other directors and the corporation except such as will bear the closest scrutiny, and then only after competitive bidding. The rigidness of the Federal Corporation Act makes it a paramount necessity for a director to carefully consider every step he takes and first of all assure himself that he is in no way guilty of exceeding the charter power or of transgressing the laws of the Federal authorities...
Until we shall have become familiar with the details and workings of the system of co-operation arranged for the Institute and the University any added interpretation by the framers is of paramount interest. The version given by President Lowell before the New York Harvard Club last night throws added light on one important point. The treatment of the graduate student under the plan is of superlative importance believing as we do in the principle at the base of the Graduate School of Applied Science. We should be sorry to see that principle lost in the resulting combination...
Thus co-operation instead of competition has wisely been undertaken, and in at least one great instance the public good has, at the same time, been made paramount to wasteful institutional pride...
...University Forum to be held this evening can hardly be overestimated. For the subject to be discussed is one that has been before the student body for several years, and which has steadily gained in prominence. Shall Hockey be Made a Major Sport? is the question for discussion. The paramount purpose of the Forum is to enable the undergraduates to express freely their opinions on the issue and what action they opinions on the issue and what action they believe should be taken in the matter. That their views are decisive cannot be disputed. Our athletic system and policy concern...