Word: uses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...President's proposal for a league to prevent war, if carried into effect, will make of every nation a policeman, but of what use is a policeman without arms? He cannot keep or help keep the peace by mere realization that he is morally better than the offender. He must be prepared to enforce the law. And there lies the answer to Mr. Davis' query, "What is it for?" Far from making the President seem insincere, the increase of our army to moderate size (which is all that the universal training advocates urge) would add incalculable weight to his proposal...
...fortnight" is being observed. The brunt of the co-operative effort has been shouldered by the publishers' and booksellers' associations, but the newspapers have also joined the movement and for the first two weeks in December hundreds of appeals will go forth "intended to quicken public interest in the use of books for reading, for solace and for instruction...
...lend them are doing incalculable service. But the value of the home library cannot easily be ex-aggregated. Cicero called a room without books "a body without a soul," and Carlyle tells us that a collection of books is "a real university." Without that collection in sight, ready for use, how beyond the reading of them shall we invoke with Sir John Lubbock, the "crowd of delicious memories, grateful recollections of peaceful home hours after the labors and anxieties of the day? How thankful we ought to be," he adds "for these inestimable blessings, for this numberless host of friends...
President Lowell refused permission for the use of a College hall by the Harvard Deutscher Verein for a meeting to be addressed by Mrs. F. Sheehy Skeffington--or rather, the day before the meeting withdrew the permission that had already been given by the College Office. Due to the courtesy of the Harvard Union, to the fact that a room happened to be available that evening, and to the Union's willingness to make an exception and admit all members of the Union, the meeting was held in a small room in the Union; and so, as it happened...
...only to members of the University. The Corporation has felt that the students ought to be thinking about the controversies of the day, and has recognized the desirability of allowing persons who in good faith bring a message to be invited by the student organizations, and of allowing the use of unoccupied College rooms for this purpose. Under this broad policy we have had many propagandists: advocates of the initiative and referendum (W. S. U'Ren. December 2, 1912, in Emerson D), the Progressive Party (Governor R. P. Bass, February 26, 1912, in the New Lecture Hall), and to mention...