Word: presented
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interest of the rest of the world that half of Europe and half of Asia should be left to fall into anarchy. It is not to the interest of the United States that the spirit of division and ruin should spread into the European countries that are at present allied. International and civil wars anywhere in the world are a danger...
Never has the United States had such a shining proposition offered to it. We are asked to give up no part of our constitution, our system of government, our laws, our possessions, except the present right to make war when we think best, for reasons that satisfy us, against any other nation that we see fit. This is a small privilege to a nation like ours, which is essentially pacific. In return for that concession we get two great privileges. The first is an assurance against the return of the frightful conditions which led to the present war, into which...
President Hibben's Alumni Day address was animated by that spirit of progress and energy which alone makes a university an asset. Too often a university impresses the world as being so absorbed in the past that it is unable to keep abreast of the present. It would indeed be a sorry sight to see an age bearing along the university instead of the university leading the age on to nobler ends. Such a sight Princeton will never permit if her president's program is adopted. The modification of admission requirements will open her doors to many more students, while...
...Senior Photograph Committee will mail "life" blanks to all members of the class tomorrow with the request that they be filled out and returned in enclosed envelopes as soon as possible. Those members of the class who are at present away from Cambridge will also be asked to mail the committee their individual photographs in order that they may appear with their college records. Seniors are reminded that these album blanks are distinct from the larger class blanks recently distributed by the class secretary...
Years from now, it is safe to state, those who are present at today's ceremonies will recall the Mechanics 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...