Word: projects
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wanting to send over to Russia a man who can help those who are seeking council, men who have an elementary knowledge of agriculture, sanitation and dairy work. We do not need a man who can project anything so much as a man who can teach the simple things that he already knows. What the Russians need is clean, healthy boy-life. It would mean a sacrifice perhaps of a year or two of a man's life, yet I can imagine no work from which he could reap greater rewards. The unselfish point of view...
...league of nations are unquestionably interested in the discussion that is now taking place at Washington and elsewhere throughout the country on this much-mooted question indeed they should be even more immediately concerned than the present parties to the dispute with the success or failure of this project inasmuch as it is for future generations rather than for the present that any covenant of peace has its more lasting effects...
...each year a thousand dollars and more so that the expositions may be of the highest order of excellence in having the music presented by artists of high rank. Mr. Whiting, also, gives us of his very best, and his preliminary talks are always most suggestive and illuminating. The project has had paid to it that sincerest form of compliment, namely, imitation and adoption by a number of the other leading universities, such as Yale, Princeton, etc., so that, as Mr. Whiting facetiously puts it, he now occupies a "rolling chair of music...
...smaller colleges have been invited, and a large majority of them have signified their willingness to enter into the project providing the rules framed at the coming session are satisfactory...
...connection with the proposed plan of universal military service there arises the dual question of principle and detail which must be satisfactorily solved before we venture farther into so uncertain a project. Among those pacifists who make it a point to quash every scheme of national defense which savors of compulsion or armament, whether or not such a course be in fact an expedient one, no proposal concerning military service will ever enjoy widespread support. We should remember, however, that so long as the possibility of war in the future exists, no matter how pleasing the prospect or how buoyant...