Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lines might result in the destruction of all opposition. France would be at the invaders' feet. Before long, Paris and all remaining French territory would be in the hands of German forces. The war would be over. The Allies, though still supreme on the sea, would be unable to attack the enemy at any point, and so, baffled, must acknowledge defeat. Temporary as this would be, for the world can never see a victorious Germany as long as men exist to bear the fight, nevertheless, years more of bitter struggle and destruction would surely follow before we could ever retrace...
This was, I thought, a perfectly innocent subject for an interview, and not impossibly a useful one. But it was lost. And my remarks were gratuitously distorted into an unfounded and idiotic attack on Harvard University. This was done at some stage or other of the preparation, as a reading of the "Illustrated's" article makes evident, merely in the interests of journalistic sensation. And when the injustice of the article as printed was pointed out to the Board of the "Illustrated," these gentlemen with the readiest good-will and in the most honourable fashion did all that was possible...
This editorial further states that the CRIMSON's sole reason for refusing to print the answer to its attack on the Freshmen was that the writer of that answer protested in "an insulting note" against their failure to print...
...challenge the CRIMSON to print at this late date either of the two communications from graduates regarding the Advocate, which we know that it has suppressed; or the answer to its recent attack on the Freshmen; or, beter, all three, to prove its statement that the communications which were not published "were either anonymous, or written in a childishly flippant and comic-supplement style." The undergraduate body should know fully whether or not such letters are "signed and more than persiflage." And the undergraduate body is entitled to know the truth about the Advocate affair, even after the long...
...CRIMSON is hardly to be accounted sincere in its avowals of open-mindedness so long as it allows its editorials to attempt to take the heart out of an honest attack upon it by Mr. M. A. DeWolfe Howe. T. M. HODGENS, JR. ROYALL H. SNOW. S. B. GOODSTONE. W. F. DAVIDSON...