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...danger of the restoration comes from the fact that the emperor is on the spot, and available for anyone who wishes to overthrow the present government. The possible sources of trouble are twofold. First there are political leaders who are antagonistic to the present government, and wish to get into power themselves. Such men would like to restore the emperor to his throne, and then appoint themselves prime minister and take the reins of government into their own hands. In the early days of the Republic there were many people who were dissatisfied with it, and desired to overthrow...
...recent meeting of the Graduate Committee of the Harvard track team, it was decided that the Supervisor of Track Athletics should assume the responsibility of coaching the team. The reasons for this change were twofold. In the first place, the former coach of the team had expressed a desire to be relieved of the burden of developing a track team, and secondly, it was felt that the supervisor as coach could better execute the plans of the committee than he could acting as an intermediary...
...purpose of the cup is twofold. It is intended first to form a record of the fall tennis champions, and at the same time to stimulate interest in the sport and to raise the standard of play in the University. The cup will soon be placed on exhibition...
...American shortcomings is illuminated. These outlaws (the Bolsheviki) are largely Russian Jews, whom we permitted to breed anarchy in the slums of New York. We have long had the problem of the city slum, and we have failed to deal with it. We have acquiesced in a twofold condition whereby great hordes of foreigners are unable--sometimes unwilling--to live according to American standards of living, and who, by their degradation no less than by their words, have poisoned the minds of other foreigners against this nation, which once had been the ideal of the immigrant. To have civilized...
...worth without the moral stimulus which prompted his determination to "make the world over"? There are hosts of men who have failed to achieve all that they might have because they lacked this very necessary attribute of true greatness. The vision to see, and the valor to be,--this twofold quality is the secret of success as disclosed to us in the lives of all men whose names are worthy to be recorded on the nation's roll of honor...