Word: phalanx
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...authority and that religion meant the church. This feeling has entirely disappeared; with the springing up of new instruments of thought and education the church has lost its hold on power and the believers in close organizations are falling as much behind the times as supporters of the Macedonian Phalanx would be in this era of rifles and gattling guns...
...testifies by the editorial in its last issue on "Protection in the Colleges." Mr. John T. Morse, Jr., chairman of the investigating committee, emphatically protests against the course adopted by the instructors at Harvard toward the doctrine of protection and laments that Harvard sends forth every year "a solid phalanx of free traders...
...John T. Morse is exercised over the annual graduation from Harvard of a "solid phalanx of free-traders," he should rather attack the spirit of the university which enables men to form their own decisions, than advocate the appointment of professors of Protection, whose aim would be to impose upon Harvard students certain doctrines opposed to the results of those students' reasoning...