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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wear medals offered by foreign governments. France has given war crosses to those who withstood the first German raid, but the recipients, although appreciating the honor, are warned not to wear them. Instead, they shall evidently be forced to put them in a glass case, under lock and key. No doubt seems to exist that such a prohibition is constitutional. From the point of view of the United States, it may be against law and precedent for a soldier to display the cross bestowed by a foreign nation...
Intellectual achievement is the one qualification for election to the Society, it is the reward for conscientious labor and for work well done. What the "H" is to the athlete, the Phi Beta Kappa key is to the scholar. Of the two the latter is the greater achievement, as comparatively few men go out for athletics whereas the entire University is eligible to this intellectual Society. The Phi Beta Kappa man wins his laurels by long hours in the Library, by hard, ceaseless labor. He is in training for three and four long years and his honor comes...
Darwin now shares with Nietzsche the doubtful honor of inspiring Prussfanism in its assault on the liberties of the world--Darwin with his hypothesis of the survival (as Germany puts it) of the strongest, and the supposed suggestion in his doctrine that the breeding of fierce soldiers is the key to national preeminence in the world's affairs. But just as both parties in the world war can, if they like, claim that Nietzsche is on their side--hater of Prussians and of all Prussianism as he certainly was, yet author of the "superman" theory--so the Darwinians may point...
Professor Perry read from a letter writen by a mother to her son in Christ's Church College, England, over 200 years ago, the key-note of which was "methodize your hours so as best to improve them." The advice was to have some system for everything in daily life and live up to it religiously...
Paris in 1870 found that lots of things it had thought rather nasty could become quite edible. And according to rumors floating through the key-hole of Germany's barred door, the standards of what go to make a square meal have become much rounded in that nation of full living...