Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Universal training which the University desired ten weeks ago is trebly necessary now. Action which the previous Congress allowed to lapse may be entered upon when the new Congress, elected on a preparedness platform, convenes next Monday New is the time to demand and to secure the passage of those measures which will guarantee us national strength and national unity...
...Craig is eternally young in the part of the Professor's wife. She has all the skill of long experience and much of the bloom of youth. Frederick Eric does well as the theorist, reminding Cambridge auditors of many friends of the lecture platform. In the part of Dr. May, Harvey Hawley is consistently clever and nimble...
...depart from her traditional policies as to participate in the organization of a league of powers to enforce peace," the debating councils of the three universities have agreed that the term "a league to enforce peace" has the meaning embodied in the four proposals, as set forth in the platform of the American League to Enforce Peace...
...officers of a university to restrict the freedom of speech or opinion on the part either of the members of the faculty or of speakers from the outside is based upon a misconception of the attitude of the students toward those who address them from the lecture platform. That attitude is almost invariably one of respect, mingled with doubt. No audience is quicker to perceive the untruth, the fallacy, or, on the other hand, the worth of an argument. Weight of academic authority counts for little to the university student who is accustomed to listen daily to men famous over...
...that "armed neutrality is a far more effective means of maintaining American rights than war." This is not an endorsement of armed neutrality as opposed to all other possible policies; neither is it a repudiation of our principles as previously stated. It is an endeavor to bring our platform up to date...