Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...guarantee the continued existence of these high ends? Force can and does achieve victory, but whether that victory is the victory of truth and justice or simply and solely the victory of the "great battalions" depends upon pure chance. In Europe, for instance, it depends upon some obscure Balkan "statesman" casting his nation's armed forces on one side or the other...
...Hapgood's first book was "The Literary Statesman," published in 1897. He followed this at intervals of two years with biographies of Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. In 1911 "Industry and Progress" appeared, the subject of the book being indicative of the new trend which his interests were taking. For it is towards the improvement of existing social conditions and woman suffrage, that his activity has been directed in recent years...
...boasts a college degree, that he be acquainted, in an elementary way, at least, with the world's greatest master-pieces of music. Strangely enough, with the progress of civilization, music has become more and more of a minor factor in general culture. The great statesman, Themistocles, was derided because he could not play the harp, yet we are not the least bit ashamed to admit that, with no thought of playing ourselves, the mere listening to music bores...
...Gianetto Bottero, the well known Italian journalist, who has just arrived from Genoa, will speak at a meeting of the Circolo Italiano which will be held in Thayer 13, tonight at 8 o'clock. His subject will be "Goffredo Mameli," the famous Italian statesman. Dr. Bottero, in addition to his journalistic work, has written several books of travel and stories, and is just now engaged in publishing a volume of poems; he has also made extensive explorations in Africa and South America...
...George Macaulay Trevelyan, English author, will lecture in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Trevelyan is the third son the Sir George Otto Trevelyan, celebrated English author and statesman, and is well-known as a brilliant historical writer, notably in connection with two books on Garibaldi, published...