Word: clear
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regret that in certain instances Senator Lodge did not make his position more clear. Although he declared him self in favor of a league he seemed to argue, both directly and by implication, against any league worthy of the name. As President Lowell showed so clearly a League of Nations must include certain minimum stipulations to which the signatories will agree: Senator Lodge seemed to oppose even those minimum stipulations. President Wilson has, by his ill advised action, laid the Covenant of Paris wide open to political attack, and some Republicans though Senator Lodge is of course not among them...
Thus all members of the University, both past and present, owe President Eliot a profound debt of gratitude for his clear understanding of their educational needs. And even though he may not be personally known to all of them, they wish him the greatest happiness on his eighty-fifth birthday...
...debate on the League of Nations between President Lowell and Senator Lodge should do much to educate public opinion. More such open discussions are needed on this all-important subject. The average man has not very clear ideas of his own on the advisability of the United States entering the League. He takes the word of his party leaders, and is often influenced by personal likes and dislikes. His prejudices once formed, he doesn't want to read arguments or hear speeches to the contrary. But if he can go to a meeting where his own leaders are arrayed against...
...draft for a League of Nations which was brought over here by Mr. Wilson on his hurried trip was hastily thrown together and so clumsily phrased that even he cannot interpret clearly what it means. Comparatively few American citizens have read the draft at all, and so far as the American public is concerned, aside from the debates in the Senate and some critical discussion in the press, there has been no attempt to make clear just what effect any one of the twenty-six articles will have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future...
...clear up a general misunderstanding it is herewith announced that the following men and no others took an active part in publishing the genuine Harvard Magazine: Alan Burroughs, W. F. Davidson, J. Fletcher Smith, S. B. Goodstone, K. R. Groener, and H. Koch, Jr. They are solely responsible for the editorial policy...