Word: tyrants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...From the very beginning of history we have had to struggle against the German tyrant who would have crushed out education had it been possible. When Austria with 12,000,000 people had eight universities, we, with a population of eleven million, were allowed but one. Having attained our freedom, our first thought is to provide sufficient schools and universities to accommodate the coming generations...
Lincoln died because the abnormal mind of J. Wilkes Booth was persuaded he was a tyrant. McKinley was stretched on his bier because Czolgosz believed what yellow journalists told him. Clemenceau is on a bed of pain because a man was stimulated into action by poison distilled from the false charge that the great peacemaker was an imperialistic friend...
...armor. As he sounds his silver bugle, thousands of fair youths heed its call, and trudge bravely forth to do his bidding. From shop and home they come, from the canons of great cities, from the gray cloisters of the universities, all march behind the great van of the tyrant, all with high ideals and hearts undisturbed by the grim realities around them. For theirs is the task of cleansing the modern Augean stables, and with mighty arm and mind they bend to the task...
...loss of three of our graduates that the blow comes most heavily upon us. None of them went lightly away: they were not looking for romance or for experience: they had no illusions about war. With sober thoughtfulness they faced the fact of a ruthless tyrant in Europe who threatened death to great living principles, and they decided that their duty lay with the Battery in France. We are staggered to think that they are dead...