Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conclusion, Dr. Van Dyke maintained that the German submarine warfare, German espionage, bomb plots, and all such machinations had forced us irrevocably into a war which we must fight out until we have forced upon Germany the realization and expiation of her crimes...
...gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...
...latest push of the Allied arms against the German lines is chronicled as the greatest victory in this war, in which all victories have been rather a negation of defeat than success. Some men may be led to the early belief that the power of the enemy is crumbling, and that our gathering armies may not be in at the final dissolution...
...Some of us still hold to the belief (is it so unreasonable?) that a professor dissenting from the majority opinion respecting the governmental war policy is not thereby disqualified from teaching psychology or comparative literature. The Columbia Faculty, however, take the opposite view and apparently agree with the Imperial German Government that political orthodoxy is the test of intellectual capacity. Indeed one might say that if this affair at Columbia has any value at all, it is to reveal the similarity of ideals and methods between those who shout loudest for the stars and stripes and those whose allegiance...