Word: fact
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those who have complained of our so called "soft" football schedule have overlooked the fact that this was an unusual year; a year when it was difficult to tell which opponents would be strong and which weak...
...past. The Berlin to Bagdad railway still exists but its terminal has changed now from Berlin to Paris. Turkey has been left helpless and adrift, and no country is willing to assume the responsibility of guiding the Turks to a haven of peace and industry, despite the fact that Turkey is as rich in resources as any part of the world...
...leaders, the rulers, it is true, have been barbarous in the extreme but the people are hated their enforced treachery as such as have the subject nations who save suffered from it. The massacres in Armenia were not caused by the blood thirstiness of the population but by the fact that the rulers ordered massacres and had to be obeyed. There has never been mob rule in Turkey--the civil population has always been only too willing to follow the man with authority...
...There is one great advantage in such a form of training which, to my mind, is overlooked by most people. The military standpoint monopolizes the field of vision. They fail to perceive the fact that through this system of training the Government would come into contact with men of every class in the country. And to the boys who have no opportunity for education, to the mountaineers of Kentucky and Tennessee, a chance would be given. In almost no other way can the men in the back country of those states and others ever receive any advancement. For six months...
...present number of the Advocate being almost entirely written by undergraduates is, oddly enough, all the more literary than usual. In fact, to an outsider it seems that Mother Advocate might be saying to herself. "Well, this home cooking isn't so bad after all." Having decided for a homelike novelty, the editors evidently stipulated that quality and good humor were not to go by the board; these two points the reviewer finds as outstanding features of the number...