Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Russia are printed the results of the Congressional investigation in the Hog Island shipyard, Philadelphia. Unchallenged evidence points out land sold to the Government for ten to twenty times its normal price, and thousands of dollars spent to no purpose by the contractors. The responsibility rests upon certain "great American capitalists," not named...
...pieces of news, it is the latter which most merits our indignation. Russia's national conscience is her own; she is half-blinded with internal disease and not fully to be condemned for her failure to carry on. But the doings of the "great American capitalists" should be of more significant interest to the great American people...
Altogether this plan is good. It will not threaten academic work, yet it will help to meet more completely the military obligations which the Government has placed on American colleges...
...American college has been under fire in recent years. It has been attacked for its emphasis on so-called side-shows; it has been criticized for moral looseness; it has been condemned for lack of responsibility among its undergraduates. Men experienced in affairs and careful of thought--college graduates themselves and men who know--have expressed the opinion that changes must be effected if the American higher educational system is to justify its existence...
...Wilson showed his grasp of the situation when he said that he believed the side-shows of college life had diverted the interest and attention of students from the main issue. An author--an alumnus of Yale--puts these word into the mouth of one of his characters: "The American colleges and universities today are splendidly equipped institutions organized for the prevention of learning." One writer refers to the college as an "educational vermiform appendix...