Word: building
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...friends, the radicals, are organized and working to the best of their ability; the only sane thing to be done, then, is for the rest of us--stodgy old fools--who still cling to the belief that before you tear down you must be ready to build up once more--to organize as well, and thereby set a few back-fires...
...First of all Armenia asks for universal recognition of her independence as an integral state that she may start to develop her policies to build a government and to recover from the havoc wrought by the war. Without recognition by the powers she cannot hope to survive...
...Unquestionably the dormitory is the best solution of the college housing problem but it must win its way gradually into the approval of the student body. Build your dormitories so attractive that men can ill afford to live elsewhere and you need worry no longer as to the necessity for compulsion. As your Freshmen would rather live in the dormitories than outside of them so would your upperclassmen find their dormitories so rich in opportunity that they would not risk losing what they might thus gain...
Except for the fall to Yale's pride, however, the defeat was decidedly beneficial to Yale. Making no excuses for their failure Dr. Sharpe set to work to build up again his shattered team; and, what is most important, the entire University stood behind their coach, letting it be known to all the football world, that they had every confidence in the ability of their team to come back...
...season, Coach Burgess stated, "There is no reason why we shouldn't have an excellent team next year. Although some of our best men, as Tilton, Glaser and Kellett, will have graduated, still the majority of the players will remain to furnish an experienced nucleus upon which to build our 1920 team...