Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lazarus and I apparently agreed that the present product of the American schools and colleges is unsatisfactory; in what respects and to what extent this is so, we seem to differ. Let us examine the nature of the evil. What "kind of men have we among those who play an important part in public affairs? We have business men who find it necessary, in order to call forth the most efficient exercise of their capabilities in service,-note that word,-to their country, to work under the added stimulus of profits so abnormal as to be the cause of public...
...award of the David A. Wells Prize in Economics to Julius Klein, A.M. '13, Ph.D., was announced at the Corporation meeting. Dr. Klein is an instructor in Latin-American History and Economics, but is on leave of absence for 1917-18, as head of the Latin-American Division in the Department of Commerce and Labor at Washington. The David A. Wells Prize is a $500 cash award offered annually by the Department of Economics through the benefaction of the late David A. Wells...
...American army officer can outwit a German military command, gain triumph for his country and win the best girl on earth--in a play. If our dramatists were only directing intelligence operations behind the Teuton lines this week we might expect to have those 70 Prussian army divisions outflanked and slaughtered by Easter and the war ended by the Ides of April...
...scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...
...triteness of the plot did not spoil this play, the unplausibility surely would. The American girl, in a moderately daring boudoir scene, causes the German colonel's death. The next minute the American officer--a captive in the chateau--enshrouds the German lieutenant-colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that...