Word: revolt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...German papers, evdently under orders from the Government, have done their best to minimize the recent industrial disturbances. But their very efforts in this direction have served to emphasize the seriousness of the revolt. When the Government finds it necessary to court-martial industrial workers in a building closed to the public and guarded by bayonets, its alarm is great. It may very likely be that bayonets and machine guns may keep the mob of Berlin and other cities in subjection for the time being, but this will not destroy industrial demands and deep dissatisfaction. The Socialist paper "Vorwaerts...
...will be given by Thomas S. Adams, Professor of Political Economy in Yale University, on "The Economics of War"; and by Edwin B. Wilson '99, Professor of Mathematical Physics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on "The Principles of Aeronautics." The other three will be on "Convention, Originality and Revolt in Poetry," by John L. Lowes, recently appointed Professor of English in the University; on "Food, Money and Trade in the Great Wars of a Century Ago," by Henry Bourne, Professor of History in Western Reserve University; and on "The United States and its Sections, 1830-1850," by Frederick...
...first two courses are described in detail below. The first one will be a series of eight lectures by Professor Lowes on "Convention, Originality and Revolt in Poetry." (1) The Roots of Convention. (2) The Ways of Convention. (3) Originality and the Moulding of Conventions. (4) The Hardening of Conventions, and Revolt. (5) The Diction of Poetry vs. Poetic Diction. (6) Rhyme, Metre and "Vers Libre." (7) The Incursions of Prose and the Vogue of the Fragmentary. (8) The Anglo-Saxon Tradition. These lectures will be given on Mondays and Thursdays at 5 o'clock, beginning Monday, January...
Talk of professional revolt and student mutiny continues to come out of Columbia, following the dismissals of Professors Cattell and Dana. Why? In most walks of life a man who fails to make good loses his job; and what failure can be more disastrous than a moral failure? No man can assail the national policy now without aiding Kaiserism. No man can counsel youth to disobey the law and expect to escape the consequences. New York World...
...However, there is no reason to disbelieve President Roosevelt's denial that he did not instigate the revolution in Panama. What happened is this. (I am in a position to know, since my father-in-law was one of the men who financed the revolt): When the first treaty with the United States was rejected by the Colombian Congress, the business men of Panama, many of them foreigners, were afraid that the Canal would not be built, so they started a separist move- ment; it was not a popular uprising. Envoys were sent to the United States to obtain...