Word: blow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dream is now at an end. The British government will permit no more German students to come to Oxford and it is not unlikely that the Rhodes scholarships will be abolished altogether. By cutting off the German aspirants Great Britain is dealing the heaviest possible blow against the Rhodes plan. Surely Great Britain has the greatest need of an understanding with Germany, and any movement toward universal international amity which excludes Germany must be futile...
...loss of three of our graduates that the blow comes most heavily upon us. None of them went lightly away: they were not looking for romance or for experience: they had no illusions about war. With sober thoughtfulness they faced the fact of a ruthless tyrant in Europe who threatened death to great living principles, and they decided that their duty lay with the Battery in France. We are staggered to think that they are dead...
...Parmenuides," must be rare. Scholars are consoling themselves over Cambridge, if we may believe a London weekly with the thought that students are told, "If you cannot read the Iliad you can act it." The pleasure of putting this into Greek verse might have compensated Porson for the blow the step would have struck him. --The Nation...
...Harvard-Princeton game on Saturday was like all other contests between these two universities in that it was a hard, tiring struggle form start to finish, with either team having a good chance of winning up to the final blow of the whistle. At the end of the first half, with the score nothing to nothing, it seemed that the veteran Princeton team would have the advantage at the end of the second half and everyone naturally expected to see Princeton start the last part of the game with a tremendous aggressiveness. But it took only a very few minutes...
...refusing to interfere in any manner with the freedom of Professor Muensterberg, Harvard has struck a blow for the integrity of educational institutions in the United States. It is overdue. It should have been struck earlier, but unfortunately was not. It is no defence of other universities which have made muzzles and forced them upon the mouths of professors that they preached indefensible doctrines. The thing that is more indefensible than the teaching of indefensible doctrines is the use of force to prohibit the preaching...