Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...offenders from the University. But the "Young Democrats" also claim that "Nobody would care to see these benighted Knights of Capital punished, least of all . . . . . the victim himself." But certainly when there is nobody with the desire to prosecute, one has little basis for even an academic Reign of Terror. We wonder just what our young friends would like to have us do. And by the way it strikes us that our Freshman friend by making this molehill into a mountain may have been attempting to make personal capital by advertising the College in a false light...
...refinement. The distinction of frugality is the scholar's bulwark: raise it, and he is at the mercy of the horrid monotony of capitalist vulgarity. A professor is admitted to polite society not by dint of theatre parties and champagne, but simply because bourgeoisie and Philistines are in mortal terror of his intellect. Money-grubbers and little-brothers-to-the-rich feel in his indigence a power which deprives them of breath. It is part of the show that he should be poor. Dress him in the fashion, slip a yellow-back into his pocket, clap him into a limousine...
...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...
...report has come that the reprisals undertaken by the British air fleets on German cities have been of value in shaking confidence and nerves. While we must not imagine huge crowds dashing about in a state of terror, yet it is extremely probable that reprisals, undertaken on a people tired and keyed up, have been effective in weakening their morale and increasing their desire for peace. To the English, air raids are a matter of habit, and the defences are well organized and trainee through long practice. To the Germans they are comparatively new, and they cannot yet have obtained...
...ever-increasing casualty lists of men failing in France, we have begun to give our lives. Pouring forth our dollars was but the washing away of the veneer. Each life now lost is a cut into the flesh. We have begun our real sorrows. We are feeling the terror of war. As the struggle becomes harder and our enemies seem only to gain, these wounds only strengthen our grim determination. For every man fallen, a brother will rise in his place. Life has become clouded, but not destroyed. Each dead man in France lives in the minds of our people...