Word: violent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...violent fighting in the Champagne district many of the companies of the famous French Foreign Legion were almost annihilated. Among the Americans unaccounted for and perhaps killed, as few prisoners were taken, was Alan Seeger '10. Seeger had been living in Paris for the last two or three years and felt that it was his duty to volunteer in the French army...
...maintain the right of all members of the University to express themselves freely, without censorship or supervision by the authorities of the University, and have applied this rule impartially to those who favor Germany, and those who favor the Allies--to the former in the face of a pretty violent agitation for muzzling professors by Alumni of the University and outsiders. This policy of freedom of speech we shall continue to pursue, for we believe it to be the only one which accords with the principle of academic freedom. I hope the time will come when you and your colleagues...
...this nothing remains except some ruined walls and heaps of cinders. The fire was so violent that not even the charred remains of large books could be found. The library contained more than 230,000 volumes, among which were 380 incunabula -- some of them very rare and beautiful examples. Nine hundred and twenty manuscripts, several of which figured an autobiography of Thomas a Kempis, have also disappeared. The library of Louvain contained the complete and unique collection of all the books and pamphlets published in the Austrian Low-Countries (Belgium) during the eighteenth century. It also possessed a collection...
...selfish way of loking at this dinner is not the spirit in which the football team went into its great game this fall, and we believe that it will appreciate least an over-exuberant reception. Healthy pride leads to healthy praise, which should never be made insincere by violent lapses into epicurean orgies. The spirit of the evening should be the spirit of Dean Briggs' toasts, and praise be to him who rises to them with a full heart instead of an over-full stomach...
...first time since the Michigan game. Captain Brickley was also out early in the afternoon for more than an hour, spending most of his time practicing drop-kicking and running. He is able now to kick with either foot with perfect freedom, but has as yet attempted nothing more violent than a hard run around the field...