Word: grands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the deepest regret that I bring these gentlemen down out of the clouds of pedagogical debate, and ask them, in the grand old words of the great Icelandic poet, Skjalmar Sverson: What are you going to do about it? It is with malice toward no one of them, and full charity for all of them that I classify them as utterly irrelevant to all collegiate affairs, entirely incompetent to face the problems they discuss in any practical way, and wholly immaterial to the progress of the universe. WILLIAM L. PROSSER...
...concert will be for the benefit of the Armenian and Syrian relief, and is under the direction of Mrs. Oliver H. Harriman. A feature of the evening will be the singing of Madame Alda and Miss Fitziu of the Chicago Grand Opera Company. The concert will be followed by dancing. Tickets, which will be placed on sale in New York this week, are $5 each, boxes...
...Chicago Grand Opera in "Aida," at Boston Opera House...
...America must make a mighty effort,--and make it in force this year. The policy of another year's stalling before a grand Allied offensive in 1919 is dangerous. It takes no particular insight to see that Italy and France are tired under the strain of the war. The true instinct of immediate self-preservation which destroyed the Russian resistance is likely to spread to Western Europe if its peoples are called upon to face a fifth and a sixth year of war. We hope that Germany feels this influence first but we cannot count upon this. Half a million...
...When Grand Admiral von Tirpitz says that "for real security we (Germans) should have, besides Flanders and Ant-werp, Calais and Boulogne," he defines Prussian theory of freedom of the seas...