Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last evening's papers, that body has taken as an official document a paper brought to this country by a Chicago newspaper man and has voted to introduce it into the Congressional record. No word of any sort confirming the authenticity of the document has come from the American representatives in Paris. The Senate is in reality going behind the back of the President, or as one Senator remarked "getting through the kitchen window...
William Lytle Schurz, A.M. (Latin-American History and Economics...
With the passage by the Senate of the proposed constitutional amendment granting equal suffrage to women, this great question comes at last before the people of the country for definite ratification or rejection. Judging by the present liberal temper of the American people, it seems entirely probable that they will be true to their best interests, and add the Equal Suffrage Amendment to the organic law of the country...
Although the extension of the franchise to women will not in all probability be fraught with any very startling political change, the result cannot be other than a steady improvement in the moral plane of American political, social, and economic life. But at the same time the foremost reason for the immediate adoption of woman suffrage appears to us to be one of principle. To allow fifty per cent of our population to contribute to the greatness of America in practically every field of endeavor, without allowing them a voice in the government is nothing less than an abridgement...
...review of the changes in curricula adopted by the American colleges in general as a result of the Great War, impresses upon us the fact that Harvard is taking a distinct stand of her own in the matter of scholastic reform. Other colleges are modifying their entrance requirements, or laying emphasis on particular studies of a practical nature; Harvard has reformed her system with a view to increasing undergraduate interest in scholarship. We cannot but feel that the University has taken the better considered course, and at the same time has struck at the real root of the problem...