Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...European nations were used in my book, so that all thought or possibility of bias might be removed," said Professor Edmund von Mach '95, in discussing the withdrawal from circulation of his book, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon. "The action of the Macmillan Publishing Company constitutes a breach of contract on their part, and a secret one. I had no warning of the suppression of the book until informed of it through the New York World...
...large number of the state institutions of the West have found them an admirable method of obtaining popular support. When Columbia finally adopts them and puts them of the same non-money making plane as the rest of its extension courses, there will be no great complaint of any breach of academic etiquette, nor should there be. --Boston Transcript...
Among casualties of the war is listed compulsory Greek at Cambridge--and it is a casualty that causes grief in England. The University Senate has been empowered to remit the study in the case of men who have served six months, and it is mournfully agreed that the accidental breach in the wall can never be made quite strong again. Oxford, too, has shown signs of weakening, in spite of the presence of Murray as Regius Professor, in spite of the quatrain of a generation...
...treaties to regulate peace and war; and yet everyone knows that in the relations of private individuals such arrangements, valuable as they are, would be insufficient without a power to enforce them. In private life, contracts would be broken frequently, if no damages could be exacted for the breach. But nations are not more scrupulous than individuals in breaking an agreement when the temptation is strong, and war comes only when temptation is strong and passion or pressure is great. In fact, most men who have thought deeply on these subjects are becoming convinced that there must be some form...
...easily to cause much concern to the man or to attach much disgrace to the condition. While the man who stands well, or even high in his studies, but who fails the orals is just as much no probation as the man who is guilty of a really serious breach of college discipline, or the man whose standing in his regular work in really a disgrace, probation will be regarded too lightly. If probation is to mean anything; if it is to be feared alike by those who are on it and those who are not, it should...