Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stronger than every other or all others was abandoned as Utopian quite early in human history, and replaced by that of the Balance of Bower. This second system having failed egregiously in 1914, it is proposed to have nations maintain minimum armies and co-operate to resist aggression. A large body of American opinion however feels, as does the Editor of the CRIMSON, that, while the rest of the world should be encouraged to adopt the third system, America should revert to the first. The more fashionable way of working for this end is to talk with General Pershing...
...first issue of "The Review," the new weekly magazine in which a large number of graduates of the University are actively interested, was published recently in New York. The purpose of the journal is to "resist the unthinking drift towards radical innovation." Harold deW. Fuller '98, A.M. '00, Ph.D. '07; formerly editor of "The Nation" is treasurer of the weekly, and Rodman Gilder 99 is business manager...
...insist upon the maintenance of those things which must be preserved if the nation is to remain a people of self-reliant freemen. The publication of "The Review' has been actuated by a recognition of the urgent need at this time of a journal of serious discussion which should resist the unthinking drift towards radical innovation...
...teach ourselves by using books properly and by exploiting our teachers to the best advantage" if we seek in "peptonised information" for the "detailed facts which insure success in life." Education has been defined in two ways: "Individual effort," and secondly, "placing students so that they cannot resist instruction." The choice of the better of these is not hard to make. I should like to see a detailed list of your philosopher-stone-like facts, but at all events, remind your readers from time to time that primarily we come to college for a single, simple purpose--to make...
...opponents by its superior team-play, the St. Paul's School hockey team defeated the Freshman seven at Concord, N. H., yesterday by the score of 4 to 2. The game was clean and hard-fought throughout, but the greater individual brilliancy of the 1921 players could not resist the combination work of the school team...