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...adequate navy would lessen the likelihood of war.- (a) The expense and cruelty of war would be appreciated.- (b) Foreign nations would be inspired with-(1) fear and-(2) respect...
...reply the speakers for Trinity Club said that there was little likelihood of war. Our foreign relations are more peaceful than they have ever been before. Arbitration is coming to be used more and more to settle disputes between nations. And even if a war should arise the addition of from three to five thousand men would make little or no difference. The position of this country as the best market for the products of European nations also lessened the chance of war; for no one quarrels with his best customer...
...State has made, a corresponding change in the spring recess here is worth considering. The recess has always been so dated as to include Fast Day; if it should be changed so as to include Patriots' Day, it would fall about two weeks later, and this would give some likelihood of a coincidence with pleasant weather. There is hardly a week in the year which is more likely to be stormy than the first in April, and gentlemen long connected with the University say that the plans of vacation after vacation have been upset by this circumstance...
...future can feel that at a time when prospects were the darkest, no despondence and no slacking in determination were indulged, it will be a spur that will go far towards securing success. The more times that Harvard acquits herself well in hard places, the more likelihood is there that she will be able to do so again. An athletic spirit, transmitted from class to class, is a very real force...
...added, and also to take care of the trophies, if that seems the most feasible plan. Herbert H. White, manager of athletics, is ready to pay any necessary bill that may be incurred in obtaining the missing pictures. He makes a proviso, however, that there must be some likelihood that the precedent of having all records and trophies placed in the room shall be maintained in the future...