Word: accession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Senator Lodge believes that Italy should have Flume. President Wilson told Italy quite frankly that he believed she should not have Flume; and by far the greater portion of that group of Americans who follow foreign affairs supported President Wilson. Lack of access to the sea is one of the greatest incentives for a nation to wage war; it dominated Russian policy for a century and a half. Flume is the chief and almost the only port in the long expanse of shallow beaches between Trieste and Montenegro. The question is not one of Flume, but of the hinterland...
...offered, though it is not required. Certain subjects are to be demanded of all students in the first two years, though we plan to allow freshmen to select one or two of the newer university studies like biology and modern history, to which they have previously not had access in the early years of their college course...
...ability to comprehend the elementary French or German which is related to his field of concentration. For example, if a man should specialize in Physics he would be called upon to pass an examination in scientific French or German. A student able to pass such an examination would gain access to much valuable material which would otherwise be unavailable. There are some branches of the existing group system, such as Romance Languages, that are not suited to the proposed change, but in general the adoption of the new proposal will be in conformity with the desired educational reforms. Unless some...
...more intelligent of the so-called "scientific managers" once had occasion to visit a factory that was reputed to be run on a thoroughly efficient and democratic basis. The managing employer, in the spirit of what he considered to be true democracy, had granted his employees the right of access at all times to the "front-office", for the purpose of voicing their complaints. In the course of his investigation, however, the visitor soon learned of several grave industrial abuses, to correct which no discoverable attempt had ever been made. Upon inquiring of the owner the meaning of this apparent...
Princeton has seen far and deep in the conception of a new military curriculum which the college has now announced it will offer. In a sense of the word, I means nothing less than the creation of a second West Point, with certain additional advantages of access to the treasures of cultural learning which are at Princeton. At a time when no man can foresee either the full extent of the military demand which the present war will make upon the nation before it is done or the nature of the new problems which will come after it, this effort...