Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...modified scale, with the purpose in view of giving as high-class football as there was before the war, and still maintain a less lavish standard. The travelling expenses of teams could be diminished and the training-table abolished. The main subject of debate will evolve around the question of the possibility of turning out good teams without these expenditures. Again it is likely that there will be a strong desire for the maintenance of athletics as they were, now that the war is over and there is no longer such an urgent need for economizing. Whatever course is adopted...
...take from private hands as a purely emergency measure, should be returned to their owners with due compensation. But in the case of various public service monopolies which are now operated by the government as a means of insuring perfect coordination in the management of a widespread system the question of restoration calls for somewhat more deliberation...
...very depressing to see our fine boys brought here in such numbers badly wounded and makes one very bitter against the military organization of Germany which is responsible for it all. There is no question that the leaders should receive individual punishments for their crimes and every town in Germany should be made to pay for the restoration of a French town. We all feel that nothing short of this will satisfy the French, who have suffered so much more than we have...
...true that in questions of this kind, careful consideration should be given to a balance of interests,--of good against bad, of gain against loss. Often-times it happens that existing abuses are preferable to other evils of a more dangerous and destructive tendency. But in the case of supervised study, one has to reckon with a quite variable and therefore indeterminable quantity, namely, human nature. Will the average student study more and better under pressure of compulsion or of his own accord? In wartime, perhaps, no chance could be taken as to the probable outcome of this arrangement...
...work ahead. The man who will most surely succeed in the army or navy and who will most efficiently discharge his obligation to his fellowmen will be one who neglects not small things in preparation for things that are great; who trains himself to respect and to obey without question his superior officers; who carries with him into all fields of his work the thought that he is working and fighting for the lasting triumph of the ideals of liberty, justice, and humanity; who finally, is willing, should the need arise, to lay down his life without protest...