Word: procession
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Germany sees that America is really in earnest and preparing in every possible way to use her full strength. This country can end the war by her navy alone before it will be necessary to send ships or soldiers to Europe, but the process will be quickened by the moral effect of America's preparing on all sides. Don't you people over here think that there would be a great moral advantage for the Allies and the Germans to see the Stars and Stripes along the Hindenburg line? After all, what it really means is this, and the pacifists...
...Cornell Corps consists of 16 companies of infantry, one company of engineers and sappers, one machine-gun platoon, an ambulance corps, and a signal corps. The signal corps is equipped with field wireless and telegraph instruments, and an aviation unit is in process of formation...
...Adamson Act takes "liberty" and "property." Is the taking justified? Is it "due process"? The test of "due process" is whether the act has a "substantial and rational" or "reasonable" relation to the welfare of the public or any part of the public. Clearly it has some rational relation to the public welfare. The question then is, whether that is "substantial" or "reasonable." This is determined by balancing all the interests of society involved and determining whether the preponderant effect of the act is such that any generalization resulting from sustaining it will open an unobstructed way for attack...
...predominant effect of the Act, therefore, is such that sustaining it will not open any unobstructed way for attack by the legislature upon any fundamental condition of the existence of the social order. The decision does not in the least tend to establish that wage fixing acts are "due processes of law." The dissenting judges in performing the process of balancing the interests must have regarded the predominant effect of the Act as one which substituted the legislative flat for the freedom of the railroad managers to contract with employees as to wages...
...present system of learning lecture notes by heart, taking pages and pages of notes on outside reading to commit to memory, is futile, if that memorizing process is so mechanical that we forget all the facts after a quiz. Yet this is the system which is prevalent here at Harvard, and at other colleges throughout the country. With such methods of study there is little wonder that educators find their students submissively docile and without originality...