Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When last we had intimate and martial dealings with England, George III, King of the House of Hanover, held in his fat and unregal hand the sceptre of that nation. With what ardor our free born Americans despised him, the stupid German lordling! How the hearts of our Revolutionary heroes seethed with contempt of his bigotry and his blindness...
...more clearly what manner of men will form our new armies. It has been estimated that ten million men will be of the age subject for conscription. That is almost as large a total as Russia might offer. It is larger by two-thirds than the whole forces the German Empire has put in the field. Yet her men have been able to hold half the world at bay. The power in numbers of our nation is unconquerable. What our power in actual fighting ability is rests with the stamina and the bravery of our citizens. If their stamina...
Already the war has taken on in innumerable engagements a ferocious character that no man, trusting to the humanity of this modern age, could have believed. Times uncounted it has been reported that German troops have held up their hands in surrender, pleading piteously, "Kamerad!" with that stirring appeal to brotherhood which awakens kindliness in any man. And then, when the attackers had spared them and passed, they have turned and fired uncomrade-like volleys at those who had granted, them life...
...Russian revolution was hailed in this country with the most exuberant delight. The mass of people stated with confidence that now Russia was rid of her pro-German autocracy, and would fight unhindered with the other great free peoples of the earth against the thraldom of Germany...
...system in vogue in South America is modelled on the German plan. It is divided into three grades primary, secondary, and superior. A boy enters the first (I say a boy, there is no co-education in South America) at the age of nine. He remains in the primary grade for two years. Then he enters the secondary department and remains there for eight years. In these eight years he finishes the work done in grammar schools here, and completes that done in high school and college. To do this the work must necessarily be very hard. The average number...