Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attention of members of the University to certain facts in regard to the continuance of German propaganda in this country. During actual hostilities most of us were keenly alive to the menace of German agents in America, but now that the armistice has been signed and the Imperial Government overthrown, we are prone to think that Boche propaganda is a thing of the past--which is not true by any means...
...Filipinos are an industrious, progressive people. For three hundred years they were kept in subjection by Spain and had little chance for development. They had already overthrown the Spanish government when the United States entered the islands. One can buy land but one cannot buy a people. The United States has no moral right to stay in the islands and rule a people against its will. The acquisition of the archipelago was a "bad bargain." We had a duty, however, to perform. That duty is now performed, and it is time for us to leave the Philippines for Filipinos...
...Columbia consisted entirely of quotations from daily newspapers. This may or may not be an effective device to induce original thinking. Strong and radical opinions, startlingly expressed, usually do have the virtue of awakening thought at least in opposition. There is no danger that the state will be overthrown by the ideas of most American collegians; but there is great danger that too many of them will become more insensible cogs in the wheels of the established machinery...
...came into clash, the open-door policy was forced upon China. She suffered humiliations and defeats at the hands of the western invaders, and finally realized that she must strive to adapt herself to new conditions. A series of reforms were already in effect before the Manchu dynasty was overthrown. Of these, the educational policy underwent the most radical change. Western scientific courses were introduced, and the examinations on old classics were abolished. Today schools for new learning stand on the ground of the spacious examination halls...
Harvard has been a pioneer in this field, and the Jefferson Laboratory, built in 1884, is the first building of its kind in America. It was here that the notion was first overthrown that "such things as turning lathes were not the sort of thing one should have in a university...