Word: strengthening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee has recently been named for the formation of a national association of university professors, an organization that aims to strengthen the conception of the professors' status. Its purpose is indicated by a circular letter lately sent out by the Johns Hopkins professors. The purport of this letter was that the university professor, besides his interest in his specialty, is "concerned, as a member of the legislative body of his own local institution, with questions of educational policy which are of more than local significance" and "that he is a member of a professional body which is the special custodian...
...closing his speech President Eliot mentioned the suggestions he made to the Carnegie endowment as a basis for profitable expenditure. These are: first, to create and support agencies competent to prevent or reduce wrongs and miseries which cause war; secondly, to strengthen public opinion in favor of publicity in government affairs; thirdly, to probe all secrets in administration, industries and legislation; fourthly, to cultivate in all nations a public spirit, and to encourage the devotion of private money to public uses; fifthly, to create and foster agencies such as hospitals, training schools and technical schools in countries where they...
...purpose of the work was to strengthen the weaker spots, and to increase the power of the more staunch places. A drill by sections, in which the different coaches tutored their respective charges, and a rehearsal of formations between the two University teams, in which the first team the offensive, occupied practically the whole afternoon...
...players who have been out of the game during the past week or so rejoined the squad yesterday. Pennock appeared at his old position at guard, and Trumbull was again at centre, after being laid up for about ten days with muscle bruises. Their return will greatly strengthen the line. Cowen, at left guard is at present being given a rest on account of minor injuries, but he is expected to return during the early part of next week...
...much less poetic was Mr. Noyes's appeal for disarmament and the "realm of peace and love and justice." In stirring phrases he denounced the vicious circle of logic by which the nations defend gigantic navies and armies. "We must strengthen our armaments because others are strengthening theirs" is the argument. European parliaments know that it must stop, and yet they cannot escape from the "vicious treadmill that they have set going" which is "grinding the bones of men." Armament and the taxation it requires weaken Europe like "a great financial vampire sucking the blood of nations...