Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Haughton was succeeded in 1919, after the War, by Robert T. Fisher '12, captain of the 1911 team. He coached four successive winning teams, two losing ones, and the 1925 team which so successfully held off, 0-0, what was generally thought to be a much superior Yale eleven. The 1923 and 1924 games were played under the worst weather conditions of any games between the two universities...
...War-God Rules...
...decade, militarists have dominated the struggling Republic. Fidelity to high principle and public spirit seems wholly alien to the war lords, and heavy taxation, robbery, and greed are the sins of all. It is only through the force of the strong arm, through the criminal control of district coffers, suppression of popular opinion, and vicious propaganda, that each militarist supports himself and his clique...
...valueless paper currency coined by the war chiefs in pay for their troops, is forced upon the local people by each succeeding wave of arrivals. Theft and looting have closed or ruined the stores and business houses. Trade is impossible. The railroads have been declaring dividends only to the militarists; troops have been the chief traffic, while the stock has been abused or ruined...
...Again, the movement is characterized by opposition to communism and the principle of class struggle. A very whole some negative plank is that which aims to kill the provincial quarrels and national divisions. The new patriotism aims to abolish civil war, banditry, military chiefs and war lords, in order to preserve the people before they perish...