Word: abandoning
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...immensely to our practical efficiency as a people in working for peace; and the surest way to destroy all power on our part to work for peace, and to render our conduct in seeking peace a subject of derision and contempt among the nations of mankind, would be to abandon the work of upbuilding the United States Navy and to refrain from fortifying the Panama Canal. The conduct of the misguided men who advocate such policies stands in the most striking contrast to work like that of Elihu Root at The Hague last summer, work which represented in the highest...
...undergraduates to erect a swimming tank for the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. coming at the same time as the intercollegiate swimming meet, recalls us rather painfully to a realization of our own inadequate swimming facilities. Because of the lack of those facilities, Harvard has been forced to abandon swimming temporarily, and a great many undergraduates have been unable to avail themselves of what is an accessible and valuable form of exercise in most colleges. It seems to me that in this case especially, charity should begin at home. Swimming is one of the few delightful and healthful sports which...