Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Americans felt that it was the price of the Balance of Power theory and the militarist policy of Europe in general and Prussia in particular. American ideals were not at all on that European plane, and yet today we see statesmen, business men and University leaders in full retreat for that precise European method of force, of piled up armaments and of an international power-magazine liable to instant explosion at the first spark. For America to resort to such European methods is to confess openly, as Lord Roseberry sees, that American aims and standards are as bankrupt as those...
...instead of anticipating his graduate or professional study or his active life. What should be an introduction to professional or business life in a world of urgent political and social issues, and the acquiring of intellectual tools with which to meet their demands, becomes a sort of sequestered retreat out of which to jump from boyhood into a badly prepared middle...
...selection which may range in subject matter from architecture to fiction is not a dependable test. The man whose special field is chemistry, whose need and probable ability lies in scientific German, is likely to be asked to read a description of the battle of Sadowa, or the retreat from Moscow. This means not only a wrong emphasis, but a decided and unfair advantage to the man who happens to draw something "in his line." Moreover, it frequently happens that the candidate is too nervous to do himself justice. Why does it so often happen that a man passes, without...
...Wigglesworth '08, will leave the South Station today for Gayhead, on the western end of the island of Martha's Vineyard, where the party will stay until the following Friday studying the Gayhead Cliffs. Professor Woodruff has been engaged at odd times since 1887 in watching the retreat of these cliffs under the action...