Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second course will consist of eight lectures by Professor Bourne on "Food, Money and Trade in the Great Wars of a Century Ago." (1) The Menace of Famine in France in 1793. (2) Price-fixing and the Reign of Terror. (3) France Bankrupt but Victorious in 1797. (4) Makers of the Napoleonic Regime. (5) Fate of Napoleon's "Immense Project." (6) Freedom of the Seas in Napoleon's Day. (7) Napoleon and the United States. (8) A Panic in the Grand Empire. On Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 o'clock, beginning Tuesday, January...
...penalty for not paying is a tempting one for the tired scholar. Though the use of Hemenway Gymnasium is forbidden there are rewards. The bankrupt student may not go to recitations or to the Stadium (thus exempting him from drill) and so days of long sleep and no work are within his grasp. In spite of these visions of a paradise at Cambridge we advise paying up at any cost for the arm of the Dean is long and the days of rest would precede months of hard labor. Our watch-ery today must be: On, on to Dane Hall...
...could have accomplished the impossible, if only he had been recognized, and declares for "legal insistence upon our rights." But as the New Republic of November 4 puts it: "He (Hughes) says he will protect American property abroad. Will he? Will he collect a usurious loan forced on a bankrupt government? If not, why not? If an American bribes a Latin American official and secures title to some enormous concession, will Mr. Hughes regard that as a right forever bound up with the honor of the United States?" What America wants is not the mere reiteration from Mr. Hughes that...
...retreat for that precise European method of force, of piled up armaments and of an international power-magazine liable to instant explosion at the first spark. For America to resort to such European methods is to confess openly, as Lord Roseberry sees, that American aims and standards are as bankrupt as those of Europe. We young men deem this admission to be a betrayal of the worst type, and it is such a confession of failure, alike of American ideals and Christian methods, that President Fitch's letter so plainly portrays. When will these leaders of men in religion...