Word: states
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...manifold schemes for the pacification of the world proposed by liberal statesmen applies the theory of national self-determination. This principle, in short, provides that every racial or linguistic group possessing a sense of national unity should freely choose the alternative of amalgamating itself in some larger state, of becoming an autonomous fragment of some larger state, or of assuming the status and privileges of sovereign independence. But while it is comparatively easy to take an outline map and to mark off upon it the boundaries for a Jugo-Slavic, a Little Russian, a Great Russian, a Czech, a Polish...
...have been needed at home--but he cannot fail to profit by the experience. His remark before the Senate committee that the war was 3,000 miles away, in giving an answer to the question why he had not moved more rapidly towards preparation, has been symptomatic of his state of mind. He can now realize what war at hand means and can make his further plans accordingly. The visit will do him good and through him the army and the country. As an exhibition of courage and good sportsmanship his journey to the other side will encourage the soldiers...
This scholarship is open to any member of the Senior Class in the University or of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who is concentrating in economics and political studies under the Department of Economics, and is giving special attention to problems of state relation to industrial enterprize. Each candidate will be called on to write in the examination room an essay dealing with economics and political science. Choice of topic will be limited to a list not to be announced previous to the examination...
That Great Britain and France have given their sanction to this step is by this time certain. The attitude of the United States alone remains doubtful. No official statement has yet been issued by the State Department, but it is scarcely too much to say that our Government, if it does not actively oppose the measure, will at least refuse its assent. And this for very good reasons...
Governor McCall was also unexpectedly called away, and his place was taken by the Secretary of State, A. P. Langtry, who apologized for the Governor's absence and said a few words for Smileage on behalf of the civil government...