Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Unfortunately the Athletic Committee, owing to the absence of Dr. Lee, has hitherto been unable to form any comprehensive plan for obtaining more general participation in sports. But the Student Council can suggest a general summary of undergraduate opinion which Dr. Lee may find a good foundation on which to base his specialized knowledge. With a little effort, it can also start an agitation making participation in athletics the "thing...
...plea for the erection of a great, modern gymnasium as a memorial to those Harvard men who died in the service of the nation. Although the high purpose of the proposal can not be doubted, and although the benefits to the University would probably be great if the plan were carried out, there are one or two points in the case which merit investigation...
...justification for this insistence upon a plan of world organization which assembles the sheep and the goats in one fold is that the world has tried and failed in all other methods of keeping civilization afloat. Another war like that through which the world, is still passing, would throw the governments of most of the world into chaos, would break in pieces the remaining world powers, and would in the end destroy democracy and the democratic countries together...
...solid bottom rock of the plan of the League of Peace is, therefore, the fact that though an association of moderately democratic countries has overcome the militaristic combine which tried to make itself the dominant power in the world, peace will leave the conquered countries in ruins, unless the solid, stable part of the world unites to set it in order and to give it the opportunity to grow into strength. A combination of nations has been found absolutely necessary to fight the war; without some combination of nations, there will be another war to fight before many years...
...Hall speech as a landmark in the history of American policy. It will in all probability be the first of a series of great efforts to convince the people of the United States of the wisdom of his doctrine. Whether or not we agree with the details of the plan we must confess that the motive behind it is of the noblest--the abolition of useless war. Let us hear him first and then judge the advisability of entering the world compact...