Word: growth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...memorable group of potentates assembled at Vienna to discuss the question of peace and the reconstruction of the map of Europe on rather reactionary doctrines. It has required over a hundred years of growth and progress to remould the political and social structure of society, so malformed by Count von Metternich, Czar Alexander of Russia, and the other politicians...
...With the growth of American participation in the greatest of all conflicts, has come ever increasing casualty lists. Every section of the country, every state is included. Each time the supreme sacrifice seems to have been made by someone nearer home. Friends have fallen at Chateau Thierry, at Soissons, along the Vesle, and even in the camps of this country. The University has lost many sons; not only graduates, but classmates, students whom we have lived and worked with, comrades whom we have contested and competed with, men whom we now mourn with mingled feelings of sorrow and admiration. They...
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, who was present at the meeting of the University Board of Overseers yesterday, decided after an inspection of the Cambridge Common and two other sites for the new buildings of the Radio School, soon to be erected, that the rapid growth of the school would necessitate the taking over of all the available land by the Government. He was accompanied on his tour of inspection by Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, U. S. N., commandant of the First Naval District, and Lieutenant Commander Nathaniel F. Ayer '00, commandant of the Naval...
...half-century of unprecedented expansion and growth in wealth, we have reached a material prosperity unequalled in history. We may be thankful at such a time as this that American development has kept pace with the increase in our national needs. The Civil War strained northern finances almost to a breaking-point. It is the source of our strength that the far greater demands of the present can be met by the America of today. Billions are tremendous drains on any nation and involve the necessity of every economy and saving. But billions we have in America, every cent...
...have described them, exist all about us; a large part of their product are at present killing one another on the battlefields of Europe. Sociologists may have their "complications and modifications," but the war in which we are now engaged points clearly to but one fact: the unchecked growth of a deadly materialism in human society. The school, in the default of the church, might have prevented this. What is the matter...