Word: pass
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Court at Versailles, attained notoriety because of his threadbare clothes and shabby overcoat, the position of American Ambassador has been most difficult to hold. Utterly inadequate financial support and political dabbling at home have made our diplomatic corps the laughing stock of Europe. Affairs have reached such a pass that only a man with a private fortune can undertake to represent worthily the Government of the United States...
...cannot allow to pass unchallenged Dr. Fosdick's attack in the Harvard Chapel upon the program of universal military training. At the same time that he denounced the nation's unwillingness to defend the Armenians against the threat of Turkish aggression, he also denounced the plan of those who would put the nation in a condition of readiness to meet such threats. For my part I see no virtue in expecting America to take the field against the forces of violence and disorder unless one is willing that America should be equipped to take the field. Pacifism combined with staying...
Admission to Huntington Hall will be by ticket, although sometimes a few seats are vacant after the time expires for the ticket-holders to pass the gate. Admission tickets to the first lecture of each course will be mailed, one to each applicant, in the order of application, until the supply is exhausted. Applications must be received at least two days before the beginning of any course by the Curator of the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, Boston, and must be accompanied by stamped, addressed envelopes, one for each ticket desired...
...previous years the chief difficulty has been the shortness of the Christmas recess, but this year one day's extension of the time set by the college office would be ample to allow the team to reach Pasadena and pass a week getting acclimated to Coast conditions...
Most important for university men, however, would be the reorganization of the junior service which becomes the educational preparation for a diplomatic career. The young applicant who enlists for a period of years, under the proposed changes, would be required to pass a severe examination in the essentials of international law, history, economics, and politics. He would have to have a command of English, French, and at least one other language. In determining his qualications, his health, energy, personality, and character would all be considered...