Word: narrower
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...people. For in what period of history has a single race been face to face, at one and the same time, with a great foreign war and a complete overthrow of all institutions? The Russian situation is indeed unfortunate, but it demands for its understanding, not the abuse of narrow-minded patriotism, but sympathy...
Ardent patriotism, unless sensibly directed, degenerates into narrow-mindedness. That seems to be the fault of the North Dakota State Board of Education, which has resolved to discontinue the teaching of German in public schools. Although there has been a tendency to bring this about in some Eastern cities, yet no such widespread decision was made. Now we hear from the West that a whole state has determined to substitute the study of French and Spanish for that of German. For no other reason than our present state of war, the school board of North Dakota has decided to keep...
...English 6 could give lessons to these editors; and there are letters from across. It is the duty of the Advocate to secure the kind of thing that college men like to read and can read. The editors might even go to some of the men outside their evidently narrow clique for help. It would be sad to see the Advocate go on sending good war-time paper to the basket encumbered with spineless imitations of what might have filled cheap magazines a dozen years ago. T. L. HOOD...
...investigation will be held; it will be a means of prosecuting thin war with greater success. But rejoicing because political opponents are to be publicly scored is out of place at this time. In any crisis, national unity is preserved with difficulty. This task becomes well nigh impossible where narrow men lies in wait to pull down others who are serving, because these others who are serving, because theses others hold different views. The men managing the various branches of the War Department must be the best obtainable. The Senate Committee will look...
...ideals. That is why the universities and colleges of America should be the centre of a kind of manhood that is soldierly, that has moral decision and generalship. The battle front in Europe moves onward slowly, thrusting out a wedge in the enemy's line, and gradually widening that narrow wedge until the whole line is even with it, and ready to push forward a new attack in another place. It is just so that civilization attacks barbarism, and the fight for the future moves on. They way in which I should most desire to be know," said Dr. Crothers...