Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...whose memories will ever be green, and much space remains for others who deserve well of their fellows. It may be that you will wish to record in this house the names of our young brothers, who went to the Cuban war and never came back. Perhaps you may establish here, as at Oxford, an arena, where you can thresh out the questions of the day, and learn to state on your feet, your opinions and the reasons for them...
...view of the increasing need of the Department of Education for a separate library, a committee of seven has been formed to secure the funds and books necessary to establish one. In the circular which this committee is sending out is stated that "It is essential to the larger views and thorough study of education which the Department seeks to give its students that it should be able to put within their reach the world's important literature on education and the books of reference that their work demands...
...Episcopal orders does not involve an attack against episcopal tenets; it involves a refutation only of the theories of the "high churchmen," whose claims have been combated quite as sturdily by Episcopalians as by members of dissenting sects. With this statement as his introduction, Dr. McGiffert undertook to establish the orthodoxy of the Odissenting sects by historical consideration of the doctrines and organization of the early church...
...spring. The various parts of the play could be open to competition, as those of the Cercle Francais and Deutscher Verein, thus maintaining the good feeling of the University at large. The proceeds of the musical club concerts and this annual play would in a short time establish a capital, the interest of which would at least lessen the expense to students if not entirely abolish it in time...
...admission. The college standards lower than those of Harvard will be raised but very little, while the Harvard requirements must inevitably be lessened by compromise with these lower standards of the smaller colleges. It is conceivable that Harvard might keep up its own standard by the freedom to establish what passing mark it should choose, but this freedom granted to the colleges seriously damages the whole theory of the uniform examination system; for there could be in the secondary schools no uniform preparation for two colleges requiring respectively 40 and 90 per cent of knowledge of the same subject...