Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...modification of Oxford's educational terminology is a distinct concession to American prejudice, which makes the title of Doctor the end and consummation of a man's learning. It is a little thing, the matter of a word. Yet Napoleon upturned the world because he wanted to be named Emperor rather than Consul. And many Americans of distinct scholarly ability have gone through other and less congenial training because the sound of a Philosophical Doctor was sweeter to their ears than a mere Literary Bachelor...
...while Homer said, "It does not become a man of counsel to sleep the whole night." The University of Salerno in Roman days declared; "To sleep seven hours is enough for either a young man or an old one." In more modern times we have the famous dictum of Napoleon: four hours sleep for a man, five for a woman and six for a fool. Thomas Edison believes we shall have time enough to sleep when...
Michael James O'Brien '16.--"Napoleon the Little," by Victor Hugo...
...theories whatever befalls; witness Norman Angell, who now foresees that America may be fighting half the world in half a century. Those who hold that Europe will be too exhausted to fight after this war forget that Europe fought continuously for more than twenty years in the time of Napoleon...
...that "we know as certainly as we know anything that the language of big guns alone is able to command respect for any nation." Does Germany, the country of big guns, command the respect of the world? It was not so long ago that an even more cynical militarist, Napoleon, made a similar statement, "God is on the side of the heaviest artillery...