Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believe that at the very first symptoms of such a situation arising, the Corporation and Faculty should take radical measures,--measures to safe-guard the University, and at the same time to help the country. I think that there might be formed a military college with a three-years' course on the same general lines as West Point. I would admit boys of the age of sixteen, physically fit, without examination, merely dropping them on their failing to maintain a proper standard in their stud- ies. During their three years in college I should have them under strict military discipline...
...Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro, and these he did not use sparingly. But think of the utter chaos which would result from Phillips Brooks lighting a cheroot in Phillips Brooks House in the year 1917. No mild reproval or honey-worded request would be tendered him. Forcible ejection would be the only method of treatment. Tobacco is now taboo in Phillips Brooks...
...strict censorship regulations prevent my telling you many things that I think would be interesting. Our trip over was uneventful. We did not see any submarines or have any excitement...
...advantage of Germany. In relieving the purely military situation it undoubtedly has been a godsend; but if could ascertain its effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle. It is not that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat...
...diplomatically wrong. Our prohibitions, where they are not to our advantage, should not appear to lessen an appreciation of France's gifts. The customary practice among our allies is to wear such medals, and we are expected to follow a similar policy. Let not Frenchmen think that we are indifferent to their highly prized rewards. Although we do not doubt the legality of the discussed restriction, yet we believe it is at present archaic and tactless...