Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reconcile the Irish to so drastic a step, England has promised an immediate introduction of home rule. Expediency, it is asserted, demands some compensation for the Irish sacrifice. There are considerations, however, which tend to deny the efficacy of such a step. To establish home rule means to alienate the sympathies of Ulster and to augment internal dissension within Ireland itself. The British have maintained their reputation as opportunists, but they have sacrificed principle without attaining the hoped-for result...
...Must Establish Permanent Peace...
...follow up her spirit as shown in the R. O. T. C., by subscribing more heavily than ever. There is no reason why you, by pledging some of your possible future pleasures, can not all help to carry this loan 'over the top' to the greatest success, and, incidentally, establish a principle of saving that will stand all of you in good stead at all times in the future...
...students' interest in life and affairs, and an increase of their sense of responsibility. This has been shown not only by their alacrity in any forms of military service opening before them, but also by such an appeal as lately came from Yale, calling on the faculty to establish forthwith a course, to be "compulsory on all and the hardest in the curriculum," that would aid them in understanding world movements today. On the other hand there has been the direct and gloomy witness of shiftlessness in scholarship given by the results of mid-year examinations as they turned...
...General Staff should by all means establish their plan. The college camps in the later summer will be greatly superior, if their men have the month of regular army life...