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...football team is making capital of the defeat by Centre College. They are working harder this week than ever before. The losing of the game is acting not as a poison to crush them, but as a tonic to spur them on. They have the goods with which to win against Princeton, provided the undergraduate body sends and follows the team to Tigertown with one thought--namely an expectancy to retrieve victory. W. H. TRUMBULL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AN EXPECTANCY TO RETRIEVE VICTORY" | 11/2/1921 | See Source »

...same reasons for which Franklin might have been ejected from France when he went seeking financial aid and recognition for the United States of America? The arguments which yesterday were employed in defense of Liberty and Freedom are today pressed into the service of those who would crush them both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Self-Confessed Hyphenate | 12/16/1920 | See Source »

...Freshmen Crush Academy Defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORCESTER WINS FROM 1924 BY FIELD GOAL | 10/11/1920 | See Source »

...equally opposed either to Bolshovism or the restoration of the old, monarchical regime. What is still more important is that an overwhelming majority of the German people seem to be behind the government in its stand. As the Allies, in their ten or fifteen years of control, can easily crush any tendency toward militarism or anything else that might menace future peace, it seems exceedingly advisable for the world to assist the present German government's plans for the reestablishment of business activity, not for Germany's sake, but for the sake of all central Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMANY AND EUROPE. | 5/7/1920 | See Source »

...assassination of governmental officials is attempted by the Reds today, as Attorney-General Palmer has predicted, all America will rise united as never before to crush the alien organizations which preach overthrow of the government by violence. The American plan of government is based on the right of any citizen to favor any changes in our form of government he may desire, so long as constitutional methods are followed. Every American has a perfect right to agitate for Socialism, Communism, or anything else he pleases, if he proposes to reach his goal through lawfully prescribed legislative action. But when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TERRORISM | 5/1/1920 | See Source »

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