Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...times of industrial strife and labor troubles which threaten to overturn existing institutions, it is in a way comforting to remember that the problem is not a new one. More than once before nations have been thrown into a turmoil because of capital-labor controversies and they have recovered. As one encouraging example of this truth, we reprint here a statement made by Daniel Webster in 1828, which seems particularly pertinent...
...drain on the attendance has been an ineradicable misfortune. During the past year the American universities seemed to be moving toward the same end. Men knew that, barring a change in policy, the new draft age would not only impair a great part of collegiate usefulness, but would actually threaten the march of American academic progress. The S. A. T. C. plan has efficiently removed these dangers. The identity of the college has been made secure while its usefulness to the nation in this time of need has been redoubled...
...Though the Japanese are holding back just at present, their intervention is Siberia is fairly certain if the German menace in the East continues to threaten," was the belief expressed by Henry Ferdinand Merrill '74, former representative of the United States Government in the East, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Merrill has served in the East as Commissioner of Chinese Customs since 1874, and has travelled widely in both China and Japan, establishing postal services. He continued: "Japan's intention of not letting Germany secure so much as a foothold in the East was demonstrated...
...merely renewing the old Balkan problems on a larger scale. At Berlin in 1878 the powers of Europe attempted to make national divisions in the Balkans; but the new nations fell under the control of men like Ferdinand of Bulgaria, and wars continued to arise in that section to threaten and finally overthrow the peace of Europe...
Altogether this plan is good. It will not threaten academic work, yet it will help to meet more completely the military obligations which the Government has placed on American colleges...