Word: romanism
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...spite of Gabrielle d'Annuzio and his hair-brained followers, in spite of the elephantiasis of Serbian national pretensions, in spite of the various "unalterable stands:" determinedly held by various parties, common sense has prevailed in the Adriatic. Fiume will not form part of a new Roman Empire reaching from Gibraltar to the Hellespont. Nor will it form part of a Pan-Slavia extending from the White Sea to the Alps. Undoubtedly enthusiastic extremists on both sides will be bitterly and vociferously disappointed. But the world at large is thoroughly relieved over the ending of the impasse. A buffer state...
...following schedule of final examinations for 1920 has been announced by the Law School, all of which will being at 9 A. M. unless otherwise design: Tuesday, June 1, Contracts, Corporations Wednesday, June 2, Evidence Thursday, June 3, Conflict of Laws Friday, June 4, Property II, Roman Law Saturday, June 5, Equity III, Toris Monday, June 7, Constitutional Law Tuesday, June 8, Agency Wednesday, June 9, Suretyship and Mortgage Thursday, June 10, Civil Procedure, Quasi Contracts, Restriction of Trade. 2.30 P. M., Insurance Friday, June 11, Public Utilities Saturday, June 12, Trusts, Jurisprudence Monday, June 14, Property III, Liability...
...living model. The celebrated orator never had the opportunity to attend a Junior Dance in person! But his plaster bust in the hallway of the Union will have a chance to view the youth and beauty that congregate there tonight. Thus, by some quip of fate, the great Roman, though long dead, still continues his quest. As Gray wrote in his "Elegy," our fires seem to live even in their ashes...
...historical background. To German geographers and historians, the Rhine is a German river, he declared, while since the 17th century there have not been lacking in France certain historians and geographers who have maintained that the Rhine was the natural frontier of France, as it had been of Roman Gaul. But to one approaching the matter without nationalistic prepossessions the fate of the Rhine valley seems to have been determined, Professor Haskins said, not by any geographical necessity, but by the vicissitudes of history...