Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of the popular conception of the high civilization of the twentieth century there have been since 1900 no less than six wars that involved European nations on a large scale: The Boer War; the Russo-Japanese; the Italian-Turkish; the two struggles in the Balkans; and the present conflict...
...will meet the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia and on December 6 Haverford College at Haverford, Pa. It is expected that the Princeton game will be arranged for some day after the southern trip. The University squad will probably leave Thursday if arrangements for the Princeton game do not conflict and possibly before the team's return to Cambridge next week the contested game will be played at Princeton...
...Sophomores Smoker Committee has arranged smokers on the following Wednesday evenings: December 8, January 12, March 29 and April 26. If any one knows of college engagements that conflict with any of these dates, notice should be given to the Committee at once...
...this country be best defended?" is the question in the mind of every thinking American today. The present conflict in Europe has shown how deplorably weak our army and navy are, even for defensive purposes. Countless suggestions and policies for a larger navy, an increased standing army, a well-organized reserve corps, and, lastly, universal military service, have poured forth through the press in superabundance. Whatever may be their plans, the majority of men in authority agree that adequate steps should be taken for the improvement of our military position. With the theories of all the different methods of modern...
...should, however, be said that these excesses of German vitality, so skilfully used by anti-German writers to discredit Germany's position in the present conflict, have not, as is asserted, been a serious danger to the rest of the world. Rather have they been an element of weakness to Germany herself. They are not essentially different from the spirit of haughty masterfulness that characterized English foreign policies and English insular self-sufficiency throughout the larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from...