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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America is not by heritage or by established desire a peaceful nation. At many times circumstances have arisen suggesting war as the necessary alternative to humiliation or that deployment of national prosperity so ill attuned to the national car. Such times may well occur again, peace parliaments and leagues to the contrary notwithstanding. In show the moment for complete disarmament is as yet one with that visionary era of international goodwill toward which all possible effort must continuously he directed, but of which there is as yet no absolute certainly...
...nineteenth century, or maybe our own American civilization, the assumption here being that the students would doubtless be led during the sophomore year to draw comparisons between the ways different people go at the job of building and administering a civilization, and to discover what kinds of civilizations occur when different sets of factors are present. This is, of course, an adaption to higher education of the project method that has been worked out in primary and secondary education. And there at least is this advantage in taking a situation out of the past rather than out of the present...
...change which is evident between that day and this, however, did not occur suddenly a few years ago in consequence of the National Prohibition Law. It was rather a reflection of the gradual change in public sentiment which was taking place during the last half of the nineteenth century. When Cambridge voted to abolish licensed saloons a big step was taken in cutting down the drinking at Harvard...
...ours, a temporary descent into the cyclone cellar becomes warranted are-leaving aside grave foreign complications- either manifestations of stark and persistent overproduction or overtrading, the advent of a major credit disturbance, or acute monetary stringency. None of these circumstances exists today or is even remotely likely to occur...
Investigations made in England by Dr. Fotheringham and Dr. Schoch, which were based on the most accurate astronomical data available up to the present time, have brought to light the fact that a total eclipse of the sun did occur in the year 1177 B. C. This is the only solar eclipse which happened between 1240 B. C. and 1177 B. C. on the island of Ithaca...