Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...committee in charge, headed by A. O. Fink '20, chairman, cordially invites all members of the University who are going to be in Cambridge on Christmas Day to attend this entertainment. It will not conflict with President Lowell's reception, which comes on Christmas...
...told me a little witticism which ran as follows: 'If the world conflict was a war to end war, then this is a peace to end peace.' And such it would almost seem unless the United States joins the League of Nations. Take a survey of the conditions all over the world, especially in Europe. Germany's militarist party is stronger now than even in its palmiest days before the war. The people have determined to resurrect their country with such an energy that it drives them to labor ten to fourteen hours a day. Moreover, the Germany policy...
During the war it would have been impossible for Mr. Kreisler to play in public. But the fighting is over, there is no excuse for its hysteria to continue. What might have been a patriotic stand during the heat of the conflict becomes now merely bigotry and intolerance, entirely out of place in free America...
...Thirty or forty years ago there was the same discussion of academic freedom as today, but then the conflict waged about Darwin. Many earnest persons argued that no college professor should be allowed to support the Darwinian theory lest the young college man lose his religion. The investigation of evolution continued, however; the Darwinians won, and no one now contends that the results have been fatal to religion or morality...
Where the call of conflict is there will my sons be found. Where victories are won my sons will be triumphant. And where great causes for a time go crashing to defeat my sons will take their medicine like men. But the truth that burns in their hearts can never...