Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This political situation has been increasingly clear to European statesmen for many weeks. They are closer to the heart of things than most Americans, and it has long been plain to them that the world was not going back to the old conditions that prevailed before the war. Many of them have no personal sympathy with this new state of affairs or liking for the inexorable facts of the case. They would much prefer to have the world drop comfortably back into the ancient order of things and be satisfied to let well enough alone, but they realize that...
...Green returned to his college the next year as instructor in mathematics and in the fall of 1914 he became a member of the Department of Mathematics at Harvard. As a teacher he was successful from the beginning. Clear, interesting, vivacious, he imparted to his hearers an understanding of the subjects treated, which served as a firm foundation for further study. In research he was exceedingly productive, and in the brief span that was accorded him for his scientific labors he has given to the world a notable series of memoirs in his special field of projective differential geometry...
...doctrines are appealing to this audience. Bolshevism was first, capturing Russia when Russia was but prepared to accept new ideas. It struggled for Germany; it can be found in France and the United States. The other doctrine is found in the utterances of Wilson. This doctrine is not clear cut and has not been set forth as such; but that it is an independent group of ideals can not be denied when we read of Wilson's reception in England and throughout Europe, when we see his effect upon the Peace Conference...
...college years are not the time to form highly trained specialists; that comes later; the main object of the undergraduate should be to acquire habits of intellectual application, of clear and accurate thought, and of lucid expression...
...good, and what is better, the high seriousness of the verse and the evident sincerity of the prose are joined to subject matter of enough interest and importance to seize even a careless reader. One would like to see in McLane's "Nocturne" reminiscences of Sappho, so simple and clear are the picture and the mood reflected therein. Other excellent verses, including two sonnets, some capital book reviews, and an amusing story, "Dolcezzo e Luce in Boston", which touches in desirable fashion on the province of the Lampoon, lend variety and breadth of view to the number...