Word: widest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Columbia's Influence Widest...
...your University temporarily in this country, and freely offer them the use of boats and gear if they can snatch a few hours to enjoy their old sport. I should be glad, Mr. President, if you would, in the way most convenient to yourself, give this invitation the widest publicity amongst your rowing fraternity, and trust it may result in our making the acquaintance of many of our cousin 'wet bobs...
...duties of the Commission are to investigate in the widest way all matters relating to the tariff system and to the administration of the tariff laws. It is to consider the various ways of levying duties--specific and ad valorem, or a combination of these two; the revenue accruing from the tariff; the best way of administering the tariff laws; the relations between foreign producers and domestic producers; the treaty relations between the United States and foreign nations on commercial matters; and so on. It is to make an annual report to Congress, and is also to report from time...
...attempt to standardize the instruction in international law is made, the following recommendations are approved: In the teaching of international law emphasis should be laid on the positive nature of the subject and the definiteness of the rules. In order to emphasize the positive character of international law, the widest possible use should be made of cases and concrete facts in international experience. In the teaching of international law care should be exercised to distinguish the accepted rules of international law from questions of international policy. In a general course in international law, the practice of no one country should...
...profession of teaching. The conviction, he says, that teaching school is not a first-rate career for first-class men is fast going out of date. It is in the boarding schols that the universal ambition to be somebody and to influence the character of somebody else finds its widest scope. Salaries in boarding schools, moreover, compare favorably with salaries in colleges. No one going into schoolmastering should look for financial gain and no one should stay out fearing financial loss...