Word: ago
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Thirty or forty years ago there was the same discussion of academic freedom as today, but then the conflict waged about Darwin. Many earnest persons argued that no college professor should be allowed to support the Darwinian theory lest the young college man lose his religion. The investigation of evolution continued, however; the Darwinians won, and no one now contends that the results have been fatal to religion or morality...
...terror in Russia has ceased six months ago...
...know my fame and outward aspect. But my sons alone know my heart. Not from narrow confines do my sons come to me. They make their way from the East, where I have grown from small beginnings nearly three centuries ago, side by side with the growth of a great nation and as an integral part of its faith and striving. They make their way from the West, where vigorous American manhood, with its face to the setting sun, hewed out an empire and established the fighting spirit of truth throughout a great land. They come to me from...
Some time ago, before the Treaty had been done to death, a wise man said that the only place where it was safe to be a rabid pro-German in this country was in the United States Senate. Senator Borah, with his horrid fears that poor Germany was going to be crushed; Senator Reed, who was elected by the Germans of St. Louis; Senator Johnson, who apparently preferred, as long as the dear Germans could not keep Shantung, to do anything rather than let the "despicable Japanese" have what was promised them--all of them played into Germany's hands...
...University presents an undefeated team against the strong Yale eleven today, having won seven and tied one game, amassing a total of 212 points to its opponents' 10. Princeton, by a touchdown and field goal in the game two weeks ago, has been the only team to score of the Crimson. With the downfall of Colgate and Dartmouth last Saturday, Harvard became the only eastern eleven of importance to approach the completion of its season with a clean record...