Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON is to be congratulated on the strong stand for peace that it has recently taken...
...wish to express my approval of the CRIMSON'S taking a stand on the subject of the summer military camps. When a paper devotes the care the CRIMSON does to the selection of its editorialists, it is right that it should present its ideas on live quesions. The editorial column does not exist to be filled with expressions of benevolent neutrality but for the setting forth of opinions...
This is not at all a criticism of the recent progress--for there has been progress--made by the Union. The lecture and entertainment schedule has this year been more attractive than ever before. The Forums have been more interesting. And above all the Union has replaced a vacillating stand on matters of general policy by a perfectly definite one. Yet progress cannot consistently continue except through the efforts of thoroughgoing members...
Your editorial on the Menace of Military Camps seems to me not to stand the analysis of careful study. I think we can assume that the temper of the American people and our democratic institutions are a sure pledge that the United States will not be drawn into any war of aggression of self aggrandizement. But to many of us it seems that a sincere love of peace alone is not sufficient to keep us at peace. Probably last June Belgium loved peace and was as unoffending as Switzerland but Belgium had no "adequate armament" as had Switzerland...
...gate will stand on the line of Quincy street between the president's house and the old Peabody house. The iron and brick fence of the structure will continue from the south end of the structure to the corner of the Yard. The other end will extend to the edge of the president's driveway. The structure is recessed back from Quincy street with an arched passageway for pedestrians on each side of the great centre gate. On the inner or yard side the gate will be flanked by semi-circular brick walls about four feet high, the quadrant...