Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone in any way connected with possessions of more or less backward people, of this or any other nation, knows that such possession carries with it racial problems of extreme difficulty, which have to be approached with respect for the legal and ethical rights of the subject people and also with due regard to the racial prejudices existing on both sides of the fence. That these prejudices are real and in some particulars vital, any resident of Mississippi, California, or Manila can explain. They require statesmanlike consideration, not "threeday" vaporings. These things may appear different in Dubois, Wyoming...
Something of value will come in due time, no doubt, from the discussion of the Philippine question but it is a matter that requires vision and understanding and some knowledge of the subject...
...firmness in denying them audiences with Mr. Johnston, have called her a "Mrs. Colonel House." State Senator W. M. Gulager of Muskogee has even called her a "she-Rasputin." And recently State Representative H. Tom Kight of Claremore, spokesman for 69 colleagues, addressed Mr. Johnston publicly on the subject of Mrs. Hammonds, as follows...
...translation into that language of a portion of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is required. A prize of $50 for the best of each of these translations will be awarded. Holders of degrees must write an original essay in either Latin or Greek on any subject chosen by the competitor. The best essay will receive...
...other institutions the name varies. Needless to say, the practice has many advantages. As haphazard as the plan may prove to be, there is always and often the chance that a so-called vagabond lecture may prove to be stimulating and may awaken a real interest in the subject concerned. Such an interest would be easily satisfied by making the vagabonding in that course a regular affair. Furthermore there is always the opportunity of becoming acquainted with a professor's ideas on a subject, in themselves of value, and the possibility of acquaintance with subjects that a student could...