Word: similars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which is the first of a series of gatherings to be held at the Union this fall and winter to discuss the political campaign, was followed by an open forum discussion. About 60 men also signed cards indicating a desire to attend the dinners which will be given before similar meetings in the future, in which the speakers will be the guests
Admiral Magruder's quarrel with the Secretary of the Navy brings to the public mind the similar difficulties of General Mitchell with the War Department. Both were crusaders for reform; both, by appealing their cases to the public, aroused the ire of their superiors; but there the resemblance ends. Mitchell advocated larger expenditures, and accused the Government of stinting the allowance for an adequate air delense: Magruder is on the side of economy, and accuses the authorities of inefficient use of the funds appropriated...
...points of view are, however, inessential; the chief idea is that General Mitchell, by keeping up the fight tried to arouse public interest in a matter of vital public concern, until the Government at length took some notice of the situation. If Admiral Magruder's present difficulties have a similar result he will be more than justified...
...Union is the mouthpiece of student opinion in England, and considers problems relating to university life at annual congresses to which 500 representatives are sent from almost every university in the British Isles. Similar unions have been formed in the Dominions, notably Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, patterned upon and promoted by, the English Union...
...what may sometimes seem his hectic enough wares. It is possible that, as Mr. Edmonds suggests, the Hound and Born will die when those men now running the publication have lost interest in it If that should be the case it is to be hoped that another journal of similar nature will be born to take its place. The Advocate, if it pursues its present policy of a liberal conservatism, will ably care for the less volatile aspirants to literary fame and moreover its foundations are too ancient and secure to be shaken by whims and caprices. With the present...