Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon Bonaparte." Napoleon Bonaparte probably never said any such thing. But he might have last week if he had been a U. S. youngster. Word was out that President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University was hunting six precocious, prodigious students, aged from 13 to 15, whom he would admit as freshmen next September (TIME, Feb. 22). President Scott cited a number of wunderkinder whom he would like to see matched under modern conditions. He announced he would get high school superintendents to ferret them out. But much to everybody's surprise it took no ferreting. By last week President...
President Scott particularized more last week than he had before. "By precocious," said he, "we imply an intelligence quotient higher than 130?or such youthful attainments as were characteristic of such men as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington, Lord Byron, Mozart, James Watt or others." Also, he announced, the students must meet all entrance requirements. Extraordinary talent in one field is not in itself evidence of eligibility...
...still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism had had its day and the foundations of the old order rocked beneath the blare of its victorious trumpets. A new Napoleon had risen from the bloody barricades of the "June Days" in Paris, and Empire was soon to triumph in the shadow of the Republic...
Amid these difficulties, candidate-picking began. First in the field against Old Paul was Communist Ernst Thalmann, whom the late New York World used to call "Germany's Red Napoleon." His worst enemies, the German Fascists, conceded last week that leather-lunged Comrade Thalmann, once a Hamburg stevedore and later a sailor, would get at least 6,000,000 votes. Some 38,000,000 ballots will be cast...
...young student at the Jesuit College of St. Clement's at Metz, heard the classroom windows rattle to the guns' announcement that the city was now German, the nightmare of the Franco-Prussian War turned into a dream of revanche. He fed the dream with legends of Napoleon; his religious training gave him the very highest sanctions. From the Polytechnique he pushed through the Ecole d'Application, the Cavalry School at Saumur, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. In 1890 he was summoned to the General Staff at the Ministry of War. Here the dream of revanche took strategical...