Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Training tables, which are necessary to several teams, meetings addressed by prominent graduates, and a central gathering place for all minor letter men would achieve that end. Nothing arouses more interest in athletics than an opportunity to get together and "talk shop." Not least in importance would be the spread of a feeling that every man must keep himself fit to give his best to a Harvard team...
...before venturing into any sort of commercial relations with the present Russia. The question with the United States is wholly economic, which is unlike England's case, if we are to believe the report that Great Britain enters into a trade agreement in return for promises to check the spread of Bolshevist doctrines into Persia and India. The United States cannot mix economic and political aspects in this way. If was are to recognize the Soviet principle--and concluding trade agreements must lead to recognition--we do so from a standpoint of dollars and cents...
...doubtful benefit to some few men; the value of the other plan depends entirely on whether the individuals will want to take advantage of the correspondence system, which is difficult to administer at best. But the whole non-military public will appreciate the effort originating within official circles to spread the "citizen army" idea. The A. E. F. showed for all time that the common layman can make a good soldier when trained; it remains to reverse the situation and train the soldier to be a good citizen. If recruiting is stimulated to such an extent that the whisper...
...Open covenants, openly arrived at" is an obsolete phrase in present European politics. The first meeting of the League of Nations, from which so many good tidings were to be spread around the world, has relegated that principle to the junk-heap of "new world idealism." The Council of the League, now under the control of the old school diplomats, is to conduct its meetings in secret, and withholds its minutes from the contaminating gaze of the public eye. One member only--Lord Robert Cecil--has protested, but to no avail...
...this all. The Workshop has done even more to generalize its influence, and spread its ideals beyond its own doorstep. A group of men and women, trained by Professor Baker, is to be held in readiness to act as dramatic coaches for any amateur acting organization which may care to ask for advice or assistance. In thus sending competent representatives from its fold, the Workshop is doing much to broaden its sphere of activities, and at the same time to assist in educating the actors and public of tomorrow in the appreciation of all that is best on the stage...