Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shows their unsuitability to our needs at the present time. The remainder of the book contains valuable statistics on preparedness, what it can do for the individual and the best methods of impressing it upon the nation at large. Some system of universal service is needed; and the Swiss system, from the point of view of the greatest benefit to the individual, the health and morale of the country and adequate defense for the nation, has unquestionably demonstrated its superiority over any other system that has ever been put forward. Then why not adopt it? is the question...
...annual reception of the Christian Science Society of Harvard University will be held in Phillips Brooks House Tuesday at 7.15 o'clock. The speakers will be Rev. William P. McKenzie, William D. McCrackan, author of "The Rise of the Swiss Republic"; Mr. L. P. Cud-worth of the Business School, Mr. J. E. Sedman and Mr. David B. Ogden. All members of the University are welcome...
...museum of art--although it is this also--as an aid to historical instruction. It is to bring out, concisely and palpably, the great epochs in the artistic development of the Germanic nationalities which in the Middle Ages made up the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire: the Austrian, Swiss, South German, North German, Dutch and Flemish peoples. It is to follow out this development from the age of the Migrations, the Merovingian Monarchy, and the Karolingian Empire on, through all its most important phases down to our own time...
...more thorough preparation of facts bearing on the subject, the Princeton team received the decision of each of the judges. The case of the winning home team was based on the inefficiency of a large body of partially trained men, such as would be the inevitable result of the Swiss system of citizen soldiery...
Even as yet in ordinary discussion, the Swiss system is either little more than a name or is so distorted that the Swiss would not recognize it. The debate will present the carefully sifted essentials of the question, with the strong points emphasized and the weak points mercilessly attacked...