Word: watchword
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shall greatly appreciate a contribution. Even your recognition would be of incalculable value in adding us to raise the fund necessary to perpetuate the memory of the patriot whose thrilling utterance "The union must and shall be preserved," is now the watchword of this grand republic. I hand you bye laws, Governor Taylor's endorsement. etc., Awaiting your early and we sincerely trust, favorable reply, I am, dear sirs...
...less lasting than Lessing's, still the nation is his debtor. Prof. Francke regretted that he was unable to more than briefly allude to Schiller and Goethe. In concluding the lecturer spoke of the wide gulf which separates the Germany of Goethe's time, when freedom was the watchword, from the present Germany, where that watch-word is authority...
...table arises, orders the glasses to be refilled, then he invites all present to follow him in emptying their glasses in one draught. This fact is accomplished in a surprisingly short time, and then the emptied glasses are rubbed around on the table while some formula, the club's watchword is uttered over them. But this wholesale absorption is by no means the only occasion which the students take to empty a glass at one draught. If a newly initiated member, - a so-called "Fuchs" is present and becomes at all "fresh" in word or deed, an elder member need...
...most conducive to success in her past policy, she has discarded many of the old ideas of education as antiquated and unprofitable, and blended the advantages of the two systems with marvelous effect. Let us hope, then, that every change which is inaugurated may call to mind that stirring watchword-Progress...
...that one of the trinity (so to say) of the humanitarian studies-literature, philosophy and political science-which has to do most broadly with man's concerns-with his concerns as a social being, has been neglected the longest so far as actual academic institutions go. The watchword, which best represents the spirit of the new movement which is on its way to revolutionize the old state of things in this study, is Freeman's well-known definition of History as past Politics; Politics as present History. This is the principle which animates the new study. Its method is found...