Word: small
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...give the message that international law is not of the past, and to interpret to no small degree the present policies of belligerent and neutral states, is in large measure the aim of the courses given in international law this year. One short hour's talk from a specialist would probably convince the most aseptically of students of the folly of his thoughts. But should words fall; let him elect one of these courses and speedily discover that he was dealing with a very lively corpse indeed...
...increase in the size of the issues which calls for a larger staff, and the fact that the board is already small because of the war, offer an excellent opportunity...
...with bad intentions. Two or three who are brave enough to take a stand for what they really belive in will soon find that they have obtained a real following and that their little group has been doubled or quadrupled. He advised the Freshmen to come together in such small groups to think things over and really get to understand themselves...
...from our many presents rises the future; and the sum of time gives small account to individual components of years. A century is a short time in the records of the world, but a century will see the death of the oldest man who fought the wars. This year, and the strife which to us swallows up the year, will be but, a page of history, for the statistician and the biographer to prod into with an exact and impersonal finger...
...what has come of these dead deeds? Not individual glory, nor lasting power to nations, nor a reversal of the immutable law of existence. Sometimes nothing more than a ruined inscription on a ruined monument, or the new thought of a philosopher, or the small poem of a great poet...