Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order that every undergraduate may know the words to "The Marseillaise" by tomorrow, the song is printed below...
...sounds fine," said an undergraduate; "self-sacrifice and all that. They started something like that down at Princeton, didn't they? But you know America is a free country. By the way," he added, "we're going to break up a meeting tonight. Come with...
...what time you have and use it well. Learn your business; tell all you know about it; and be informed on your subject so that you will never tell an untruth unconsciously. Although making a mistake is not the same thing as deceiving; still you are responsible for the facts and, therefore, for the truth...
...reason is not far to seek. We have been getting our opera through foreign media--we have been subsidizing alien directors, conductors, and a thousand others to give us our music. They know their business, from their own viewpoint, at least. They know that once the fetish of opera sung in an uncomprehensible language is destroyed, their day is over...
...They know that once American singers become strong enough in the operatic field to dispense with a foreign trade mark, then the next logical step is the employment of American directors, and American conductors, and the shift from a foreign to the native language. Not only this, but our singers instead of studying abroad, would be taught in this country...