Word: denials
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lynching is a denial of the right secured by law to every man accused of a crime to a fair trial before an established court. It brutalizes the communities which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in those young people who constantly witness barbarities unpunished and uncondensed. It blots our fair fame as a nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples...
There has been no denial of this conversation. We are therefore justified in assuming that the foregoing summary is accurate. What conclusions should we draw from...
...amount which we seek is large. It is absolutely necessary in the form of unrestricted funds. The first important need is a 50 per cent. increase in the salaries of the teaching staff, which has been struggling along with truly admirable self-denial on the scale established 14 years ago. For this we must raise no less than $12,000,000, to yield an income of $600,000. It is fair to say that 90 per cent. of the teachers of the University can not live without personal sacrifice on the salaries paid them as teachers...
...world waits expectantly for the official denial by Harvard University of the account of an opening of a "hostess house for students" published in yesterday's papers, and its ascription to a corrosive Yale propaganda. According to the dispatches, "one luxury is a candy kitchen where undergraduates can make fudge or taffy." A few years ago a public which took its opinion of Harvard from professional humorists would have found in this statement confirmation of all its suspicions, but football scores of 41 to 0 against Yale prepared the world for the spectacle seen in a war in which Harvard...
...winning team would be possible, he stated, if the men would show a spirit of fight and determination, head-work, co-operation with the captain and coach, and most of all hard and faithful self-denial...