Word: parallelism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed slave...
There is a possibility that Cornell Dartmouth, Pennsylvania and perhaps Columbia, may enter into a closer athletic combine. Though these colleges have had athletic contests once or officer each year, it is planned to parallel the system of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton's by meeting thus annually in as many sports as possible...
...Britain has not always been able to find her ideal leader but at this time she has found salvation in the man who is qualified to lead, more by circumstances than by the devotion of the intellectual classes. And to this choice the British expect to find a parallel in America's future conduct, for the circumstances are no less urgent and the end is far greater...
...addition to the suitability of artillery to the college man it is especially adapted to the peculiar problem of military training at the colleges themselves. The curriculum of the artillery runs more nearly parallel to the academic program than does that of infantry or any other arm. There is enough technical and theoretical knowledge to be learned to keep several courses going throughout the year. With sufficient classroom work to be undertaken, winter drills under adverse conditions would not be necessary in order to keep the military system intact. This is perhaps the most important factor in adapting artillery...
...parallel to this can be found by taking the case of a man in business. He enlists or is drafted into the service. When he returns, his old position is waiting for him. That is the job he knows. He isn't suddenly pushed ahead without further experience. What a business concern does, the University is doing. She is welcoming back her sons in their old positions, not shoving them forward to ones which would be unfair both to them and herself...