Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...need more than a small standing army. They see the world forever freed from wars, and arbitration steeling all disputes. But even if it was within the power of the League to bring us to such an Utopian state, we have never tried it out; we do not know that it will even help to end armed strife. As long as there is anything to be desired in the world men will fight for it, whether in the courts or on the battlefield. And how are we to tell whether some nations will abide by the awards of the League...
...bourgeois," says they are the Anarchists; but Lenin's view does not count. His war-against the Anarchists of Russia is of no significance; his idea of Bolshevism as a paternal pervasive government--the antithesis of no government at all--is neither here nor there; what does Lenin know about Bolshevism? Finally, Senator Watson accuses on Mr. Johann G. Ohsol of being "a soviet of the most virulent type." Since when was it a crime to be a committee...
...whom I want to curse out, but those who are not here tonight. When I was an undergraduate you had to fight your way into the Union for a football mass meeting and this room was crowded to the walls. When I arrived tonight I did not know whether I was to speak to ten or twenty...
...think your team is a steam roller you are mistaken. You don't know what it is to fight a Princeton team at Princeton. Thousands of supporters will give their team its strength. Out of 1000 expected only 100 have signed up here for the cheering section. It's a disgrace I'll make you a proposition. If every undergraduate who possibly can will follow the team to Princeton we will guarantee to give you a fighting eleven. Will...
...teaching staff have time hanging upon their hands, this suggestion has found marked favor. The success of the arrangement varies with the professor. About all that can be argued for it is that it is better than nothing. But Seniors--that's another matter. For one thing they know the ropes. More than that, Freshmen will give them what they will not so readily give parents or professors--respect. New York Evening Post...