Word: exist
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...highly efficient Imperial Japanese Government is acting without definite aim is improbable. If the aim is insidious, then the sooner the western democracies come to an understanding with their eastern ally the better. If it is not, an enlightenment will only serve to dispell any unjust suspicions that may exist. Whether the Japanese purposes are legitimate and desirable or not, we ought to be well aware of what they are, for the future history of the world as well as that of the Far East will bear the marked impression of the results of the present policy...
...industrial dispites, in particular, this tendency has been apparent. A strike may sometimes be excusable; violence can never be excused. As contrasted with some other countries, we have been too apt to see great emergencies where none exist, and to resort to gun-play before there is any need...
...Senior Advisor system, as now practiced in the University, has proved of undoubted value, and has been of much benefit to Freshmen. Nevertheless, certain faults exist; and until these are removed, it is useless to hope for the best results...
...tradition that the venerable Hasty Pudding Club at Harvard started with the two-fold object of enabling its members to consume mush and milk, and discuss the problems of the day. The Harvard Union formed in 1831 was a debating club not essentially different from the clubs which exist in practically all schools and colleges of today. The position of debating as an adjunct to the college curriculum was thus early recognized, but debating as a contest is of much more recent growth. Intercollegiate debating in America probably owes its beginning to the fact that after several years' negotiations...
...beginning of a healthy undergraduate interest in the affairs of the race, and in a discussion of its problems. But the University has also its right to share in our attention the matter of class elections is only one phase. There is no reason why the two cannot exist together. By all means let us continue to share in the problems of the outside world; but in doing so, let us not forget these problems which lie at our door...