Word: bounded
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What has been said concerning the Japanese students can be said with equal truth about the Siamese and Chinese. The Far East has sent many men to Harvard since the war closed European universities. Since the great barrier raised by the Bolsheviki at the Ural Mountains has bound us still more closely to these people, no such chance as this should be ignored to place relations upon the most cordial basis. The friendships formed in college today will develop into international friendships of tomorrow...
Ignorance and illiteracy are the greatest possible obstacles to a free democratic government, a spirit of patriotism and Americanism. It is difficult to expect a man who cannot write his own name, whose whole life is bound up in six days of manual labor and a pay roll at the end, to appreciate the advantages of our particular constitution. Why should he not join the I. W. W., the Bolsheviki or any other organization that promises him more personal advantages, more money, more power. The agents of destruction are amply provided with arguments for his consumption...
...Caribbean, in Central America, simply cannot carry out a policy of isolation. Nor can the richest country in the world, with enormous products and exports, with nearly fifteen million foreign born persons living within our boundaries, communicating daily with swift ships to all parts of the world, bound in a network of cables and wireless, now a creditor in thousands of millions, to many European governments, owner of immense values in foreign securities, keep out of the complications of modern industrial and economic life...
...serve his country, returns to find his service to country and college ignored by--the--one who should accord him most honor. Of all places in the world a man should stand squarely upon his merits in the eyes of his Alma Mater. Otherwise, bitterness and hatred are bound to result as has occurred in this case...
...International Army drills constantly at the Hague, understand neither the spirit nor the necessity of the time. The vital thing, at the moment, is to train men, and particularly statesmen, to the realization that conference is a better method than war for the settlement of disputes. International Government is bound to grow slowly and to encounter every degree of hesitation and scepticism. The League of Nations at the present time means nothing more than the admission that there is a common good in the world and that we must evolve a common mind and purpose for its continuous achievement...