Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...opening of the colleges next fall. In the meantime it is very essential that such problems as the one already discussed be decided one way or the other. In short, the universities and colleges throughout the country must not be made the object of experimentation if previous solutions can prevent...
...President Wilson himself, that he alone is the father of the ideal and the doctrine, is as erroneous as a similar conception that Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence. Increasing antagonism to one man rule, which was apparent in the audience every time Senator Lodge mentioned the administration, will prevent the adoption of any League unless it is realized that such an important program could only be the creation of all the nations involved...
...American standards of living, and who, by their degradation no less than by their words, have poisoned the minds of other foreigners against this nation, which once had been the ideal of the immigrant. To have civilized and Christianized the slums twenty years ago would have been to prevent the horrors that are taking place in Russia today. THE CHURCHMAN...
...much importance cannot be laid upon the continuation of the Freshman Jubilee. Its elimination would not necessarily involve the future success of any one of the members of '22, nor leave inarticulate forever some unfound songster. However, it would discontinue an excellent tradition as well as prevent the class from enjoying its only social function before the Junior year...
...most unfortunate that conditions at the University are such that students coming from foreign lands remain almost completely aloof from their fellows of American blood. Mr. Hood pointed out in his communication of last Monday the great barriers intervening between us and our guests from abroad which not only prevent them from obtaining little more than a superficial knowledge of American customs and culture but also shut us out from the profit we might enjoy from associating more closely with them. He suggested certain remedies for the situation,--to wit, the mingling of foreign students with American in dormitories...