Word: vanguarde
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...significant that even in the biter days of 1920 the youth of the country as represented in the colleges and expressed in numerous straw-ballots, favored the ratification of the treaty and the covenant. It is significant also that now again the colleges are in the vanguard, pressing the issue before the country. Youthful sentimentality this may well be, but it is an undeniable tendency--a force to be reckoned with...
...West Virginia is the Vanguard of the coming struggle that is to put to the test our institutions and our ideals. The story of the last five months of armed uprising and counter uprising with the result that 1800 men are now being tried for murder and treason is well known...
...must be admitted that scholars are needed and to that extent this article can be accepted; for only as there is a vanguard of seekers after knowledge who are not interested primarily in profiting personally, but rather in discovering, can there be any development toward truth. Scholars are necessary, however, only in so far as they do contribute toward the ultimate social end; and what is needed, is not to change the educational standards entirely, but to change them so as to permit the easier development of those who are now discouraged, if not actually prevented, from following out their...
Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, has laid claim to Wrangel Island, for the British Government, on the grounds that the vanguard of his expedition composed of himself, four Eskimos and four Americans, raised the British Flag there last September. The claim would be merely interesting if it were only a case of discovery but like most actions at present it has grave international complications...
...Howe's task is now nearing completion, and the Harvard University Press promises for June publication the first of his four volumes. This will contain biographical, sketches of those 30 men whose deaths occurred before the United States entered the war. The book bears the appropriate subtitle, "The Vanguard...