Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Oxford in the hope of creating an international good-fellowship between the two empires. Ten years later the breaking out of war seemed to disprove the practicability of his theory. But only forty Germans made use of this opportunity and all of these were personally selected by the Kaiser. The future success of the plan elsewhere cannot therefore be judged by the situation with regard to Germany...
...public man in America. This restless dynamic spirit carried him from the White House to the jungles of Africa and South America, from ranching on the western praries to leading his men in action at San Juan Hill. His fearless Americanism in the Venizuelan trouble with Germany made the Kaiser exclaim afterwards, at the height of his power, that Roosevelt was the one man in the world he feared...
...cause, an accomplishment which came just in time to knit up loose ends of the national fabric in more Allied countries than one. He interpreted humanity's task in a way that solidified public opinion the world over and made it harder for every cynical doubter to do the Kaiser's work...
...sweeping away many old ideas and creating new ones that will materially affect the coming generation. We realize now that the interchange of instructors between our universities and those of Germany was not the benevolent scheme that we believed it to be, but an important step in the Kaiser's attempt to influence public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more closely than ever before to the civilized nations of the earth, and that it will...
Since the existence of football as a University enterprise is not compatable with the best interests of the Nation during the present crisis, let us drown our regrets and, after the Kaiser has been securely caged, we will again take up successfully our yearly task of taming the Tiger and the Bulldog...