Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...within, and we would be dwelling in a fool's paradise to claim that all men of this or any nation are motivated by considerations of justice and good will. Just how proper preparation should be made by our country to meet the danger of war is a question upon which this Committee is divided. This is a question which it does not seek to settle. One thing unites its members...
...Were this merely a question of military drill, as most men recall it from their own high school days, it would be one thing. We have here, however, a frank proposal to extend military training, compulsory so far as possible, and under the management and control of the War Department, to public schools and colleges throughout the United States. This at a time when, perhaps in all world history, it is most important to avoid stimulating the war spirit...
...Ozaki is a believer in thorough westernization. He is evidently irked by the fendalism remaining in politics and provincialism in industry. They who hold that Japan can do better by consciously rejecting unsuitable portions of western civilization might see more progress. Nevertheless, these suggestions place the far eastern question in a light that the ego-istic westerner seldom sees. They show Japan, far from single-minded and bent on onset against the west, in the throes of difficult and diverse evolution. Which all goes to show that the popular mind, if not the scholarly mind also, is ignorant of just...
...conflict will be of interest as are the methods of all political struggles. The results will, however, be fraught with greater significance. It is the guess of many that Prohibition will force its way into party strie in 1928 1926 in New York will help to answer the question...
...questionnaire of the Student Federation, in so far as it deals with compulsory chapel, meets a well-defined opinion at Harvard and the specific question requires little comment, except to note protest against compulsory chapel, is far from universal...