Word: parts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large increase in the subscriptions received from the western part of the country is expected after the football trip to Pasadena. Up to recently less than 9 per cent, of the 1500 graduates living on the Pacific Coast had subscribed to the Fund. It is hoped that several hundred thousand dollars will be subscribed, due to the presence of the football team in California...
...Legally, these excesses cannot be prevented without imposing some sort of powerful censorship; and such censorship could not be applied by the government without destroying the liberty which can be so beneficial. Not prohibited by the law, propaganda creeps in and is accepted by many as an almost essential part of freedom of speech. Men may talk on paper-dolls and tin soldiers, but that cannot be set among the successful results of toleration...
...name of America and in the spirit of Roosevelt" is the purpose of the new Roosevelt-America League. Mr. John Finley has made public a statement which outlines the plans and program of this league whose object is to perpetuate "the spirit which this extraordinary man incarnated." Part of the program includes summer camps in Roosevelt's "old west...
...Lastly, such an international union is necessary in order to safeguard the political integrity of China from even a suspicion of intrigue on the part of any foreign power, such as would be sure to arise if the former methods of financing China were followed in the immediate future. If a consortium of this nature can provide the funds and appoint a commission on which there shall be representatives of China as well as of the great powers which lend the money, China may reasonably expect thereby very great assistance in her momentous problem of securing international peace...
...eyes turn toward Washington, what do we see? Our august Senators and Representatives are preparing to take a two weeks vacation. While individually they urge increased work on the part of everyone else, collectively they vote themselves a fortnight's holiday. The words of Governor Coolidge in speaking of the Massachusetts Legislature apply equally well to Congress; service as a representative, voluntarily undertaken, cannot be looked upon as a job; it is a trust, and one not lightly to be cast aside...