Word: establishment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lilliputians thought that Captain Gulliver's watch was his god, because he said that he consulted it before taking any important action. Consequently, when every one of our official bodies, from state legislatures down to city councils and boards of selectmen, try to establish their own regulations in regard to clock-worship (chronometrolatry, if a more exact term is desired), the effects are apt to be disastrous. We have read of New Jersey court-houses, where the judge arrived an hour early and the jury an hour late, while the prisoner and the witnesses were kept in agonized suspense...
...Faculty of the Engineering School has voted to establish a new undergraduate course of training in electric communication engineering, comprising the study of the telephone, telegraph, hydrophone, and radio-communication, and also to substitute for the present program of study in sanitary engineering, two new programs, the first to be in sanitary and municipal engineering, and the second in sanitary chemistry...
...Wednesday the Shannon Post will establish headquarters in the basement of University Hall, in the R. O. T. C. quarters...
...world been confronted with a more serious situation than now. Millions are in want, facing starvation. The children of Europe, half-fed, underdeveloped, appeal for help. Only with infinite pain, unnecessary loss of life and slowness of result can Europe rebuild her industries, restore her agriculture, and re-establish her commerce, without the help of America. The treaty setting forth the terms of peace has not been ratified by the United States. Boundaries are not fixed. People are uncertain as to their allegiance...
...True reform will never be effected by law and force, but only by education healthy public sentiment, and moral suasion. We can no more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...