Word: showings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...announcement by Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the Navy Department plans to establish a series of naval courses at the University adds one more opportunity for college men to show themselves ready to respond to the call of the times. The government is now fully awake to the imperative need for the nation so to prepare itself that it shall be capable to defend its people at all times from the ravages of an unexpected enemy...
...willingness of the University to give credit for such work and the addition of these military and naval courses to its regular curriculum show a realization of the prime importance of every student to prepare himself for all-around service. The creation of a great country with adequate means for its maintenance in the face of all attacks will be the ambition of all colleges, and in educating young men to meet all exigencies which may arise, they will perform a true and complete service to the United States...
These few changes show a decided alteration of Yale's policy and contain the essence of a revolutionary movement...
...Senatorial opposition to the Covenant has based some of its strongest arguments on the violations of the United States Constitution which it appears to demand. In fact Senator Knox's speech on March 1 was based essentially on this proposition. President Lowell must show conclusively that no such violations exist, that whatever of sovereignty the United States gives up in taking her share in the responsibilities of the League will be so insignificant in comparison with the ensuing benefits as not to bear discussion. Senator Lodge, however, has an equally difficult task in successfully maintaining that America ought...
...admitted to polite society not by dint of theatre parties and champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part of the show that he should be poor. Dress him in the fashion, slip a yellow-back into his pocket, clap him into a limousine, and, no matter how brilliant he may be, he is useless, he has lost his spell...