Word: assaulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people in the world, of being perverted. The indignant apostle, helpless on the far side of an ocean, can only pray while the enemy makes a determined attack on his very stronghold, and of what use are new converts when the old are falling before the Amazon-like assault? It seems as if the master-believer would be forced to return to defend his hard-won following. Once in Zion City, the clash of the two forces will eclipse any struggle of such intensity as Straton versus Darwin. The McPherson-Voliva fray promises well to be the true battle...
...undergraduate is pretty much at ease; but some alumni have, in recent issues of the Alumni Bulletin, questioned the procedure of the Dean's office in handling probation. To these gentlemen Assistant Dean Nichols replies in a soothing fashion in the current number of the Bulletin. He parries the assault neatly with a general account of the system in effect, and then thrusts vigorously home with examples and statistics to show the validity of his statements; that "there is nothing arbitrary or automatic about the present method, but that, rather, it is as broad and as flexible as any system...
...Griggs's final assault states that the colleges make capable students "do time" by retaining for four years the man who has covered the ground in two; and especially, that teachers who have completed all the required work are obliged to "serve a jail sentence to get the M.A. and then the Ph.D. degrees." But the four-year requirement is not inflexible. At Harvard alone a fairly large number of candidates receive their degrees in three or three and one-half years; and if any of Dr. Griggs's two-year men should ever come to the University, they...
...custom of hurling brickbats at American colleges and their system of study has by now become rather hackneyed; still, when a man so distinguished as Hamilton Holt takes up the cudgels, he is sure to get a hearing. His assault on the lecture and recitation systems at the luncheon of the Harvard Teachers' Association Saturday has drawn no little attention, for he represents not impotent battering at what is established, but construction of something new, and, as he thinks, better. Rollins College, of which he is President, is, perhaps, the most radical departure from the norm of universities in America...
...debate was historic because Dolliver's assault on Schedule K was the main factor during the next four years in discrediting the tariff revision of 1909 and with it President Taft's administration. This situation encouraged the Progressives' third ticket in 1912, which led to the election of Woodrow Wilson...