Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dead-weight the capitalist can fasten upon the necks of the American people. 'Politics,' he says, the colleges look upon as a low pursuit, and college opinion is regarded by our legislators as a joke. He thinks it a great pity that the political arm of our State and National Governments should not receive support from our colleges. Never in the history of the country have the nation and the state leaned so heavily upon our colleges for expert assistance and advice in every line of Governmental work as today. After only two years political experience a college professor...
General Wood believes that "the best chance to have a good peace is to have a good army." There are many citizens fully as patriotic who believe that still better chances for peace will ensue when there is a nation-wide sentiment against all armies, good...
There seems to be a particular need in this day and generation for just such an organization as it is proposed to form tonight. There probably never was a period when the art of government was so important to our nation as now. The tremendous agitation of all sorts of social and economic questions creates an enormous strain on the machinery of government; the doubt in which are held many of our traditional forms of government subjects them to great pressure; here indeed is an urgent demand for scientific treatment of political topics. Without becoming too academic the club...
British labor has learned from the great railway strike and the nation-wide coal strike of recent years, that a mere strike for higher wages, even where successful, confers no lasting gain on the working class, since the coal operators and the railway managers promptly raise rates and prices to several times the amount of the increase. The present aim of the working class is to bring all its influence, by striking and by political pressure on Parliament, to bear on the nationalization of coal mines and railways. Public ownership of tramways in London, as a first step, has been...
...Thayer has been very prominent in legal matters of both state and nation. He is an authority on "Evidence" and "Torts," and he has lectured on "Massachusetts Practice." For about seventeen years he has been a member of the council of the Boston Bar Association, and he is also prominent as a member of the American Bar Association...