Word: compact
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Senator Lodge's interpretation, though subtle, is very potent. The following example well illustrates it: Three boys are oppressed by a bully, so they league together to jump on him should he attack any one of them. There is a great sense of security and power in such a compact. But, now, if the largest of the three withdraws from the agreement, saying, 'All right, boys, when the bully attacks you, jump on him. I will then decide whether I shall help you or not,' both the advantages of the league are lost...
...heart of the treaty,' says President Wilson, 'is the agreement of all the countries to stand together in upholding the territorial integrity of the fellow-members of the League.' Now, if the United States, one of the members, perhaps the greatest, decides to remain out of the compact, one of the principal features of the League, that of unified and overwhelming power, is shattered...
...agree to occupy personally one of the seats applied for or return them to the Association." Every Yale game ticket-holder must live up to this compact...
...generally supposed, it truly would be well to hesitate before joining it. But it isn't. I don't aspire to be a politician, but in my travels I have received some impressions that I hope are correct; and these are that this League is not an irrevocable compact, but a means of getting together, of discussing and trying to answer some of the great questions that concern the safety of the whole world. And as the League of Nations is the best solution for this, it must come...
...effective cheering or singing is good leadership. That was lacking on Saturday. But the leaders were at a disadvantage in having the cheering forces scattered through the entire stand and mingled with an audience who were there to see and not to cheer. A few Brown rooters in a compact mass completely out-did us. By reserving Section 32 behind the band for University men until the game begins the H. A. A. could avoid the scattered cheering of Saturday. But that is not enough. When the University singing is so weak it cannot be heard above the band...