Word: ruining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been reached in educational affairs in this country is the belief of Henry W. Holmes '03, Professor of Education at the University. No longer can the United States continue on its shipshod course; hereafter a definite plan must be followed or the present educational system will come to ruin. With this in mind a Graduate School of Education is now in process of formation at the University...
...ardent followers set forth in print for the promotion of their ideals and for the progress of the world! Gradually we have become enlightened concerning the evils which have held us in their yoke and which have surely brought us to the brink of ruin and destruction, while civilization and progress have been unknown. Indeed, it is high time to stay our backward course, and, by suppressing evils, start the world forward...
There are undoubtedly a certain number of men who will take exception to the new program on the familiar grounds that it will "ruin Harvard as an academic institution by turning it into a veritable military college." The fallacy of this argument is very clear. In the first place as long as military work remains elective it cannot in any way effect the status of Harvard as an institution of learning. No one need take up the artillery training or other military courses during his undergraduate life in the future, any more than it is now compulsory...
...into confused and hopeless civil wars. It is not for the interest of the rest of the world that half of Europe and half of Asia should be left to fall into anarchy. It is not to the interest of the United States that the spirit of division and ruin should spread into the European countries that are at present allied. International and civil wars anywhere in the world are a danger...
...anarchy. Our Archangel force continues to fight off the Reds to the best of its ability but the loyal Russians have ceased to set any store by its efforts or by any assistance from the Allies whatsoever. They are making a last appeal to Japan to save them from ruin...