Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Graduate School of Business Administration, have been appointed by United States Commissioner of Education Claxton as a committee to investigate and report on the means for establishing in schools and college courses of study best adapted to fit young men for careers in the foreign service of the country...
...country that sensational newspapers have quoted and garbled such remarks. As a matter of common law, it is clear that the utterances of an academic instructor are privileged, and may not be published, in whole or part, without his authorization. But our practice, unfortunately, still differs from that of foreign countries, and no effective check has in this country been put upon, such unauthorized and often misleading publication. It is much to be desired that test cases should be made of any infractions of the rule...
...steady. They rise to a height of 2,000 or 3,000 feet and are connected by a cable to an automobile. The cable has a telephone wire inside so that the operators in the balloon can telephone where they observe the shot to strike. The heads of the foreign armies and navies assert that the saving of ammunition from one day's observation will more than take care of the cost of the kite balloon. The balloons which the Aircraft Company is now constructing are for the United States Navy and are made to be towed by a battleship...
...conversation with one of the foreign students, the question arose as to why we had been brought. This student drew for himself three conclusions, which to me seemed most appropriate and which I deem it not improper to quote...
...Because of (1) the broadening, enlightening, and inspiring influence which the American students would experience; (2) the bringing to the foreign students the mission of peace; (3) the influence which students, both American and European, would exert in the future...