Word: existence
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Weston opened by defining suzerainty as the general right of one nation to interfere in the internal affairs of another nation over which the right exists. In this controversy, the negotiations hinged on suzerainty and not on international law. England refused to accept specific reforms and the question came down to one of franchise. The Transvaal asked England to stand by her statesmen and courts, whose opinions were that suzerainty did not exist. England's magnanimity had been tried and found warning. She never claimed that the conventions have been broken nor would she accept the remedies of grievances because...
...conventions. But conventions aside, England had the general right to protect her citizens, and Princeton did not deny this. The South African troubles had to be faced by England, but, in facing them, she did not demand government control. Wherever English subjects were maltreated, there harmony could never exist...
...offense has only recently been taken up in a systematic manner and it is consequently still ineffective. The backs run slowly and interfere high and the linemen fail to open holes cleanly and at the proper time. The plays are slow and loose and lack the force which would exist if every man's energy were exerted at the right moment. Nevertheless, if the men continue to grasp the principles of football as rapidly as they have in the past ten days, they will undoubtedly form, at the end of the season, a reliable but not brilliant team...
Attention was then called by President Eliot to the state of affairs which is beginning to exist in this country. As has long been the case in other countries, the number of men developed by our professional schools has been greater than the demand for teachers in the colleges. Men should not despise, therefore, positions in secondary schools. The good that would thus result to the community from having men of the highest intelligence, or the finest professional training take charge of elementary education is beyond estimation...
Half the troubles of mankind come from an ignorance which consists less in not knowing things, than in wilfully ignoring known things. Certain great political and social plagues exist for which men of thought should be an antidote. What I plead for today is the wider, nobler, unpaid service which an educated man renders to society simply by being thoughtful and by helping others to think. Passion, as well as ignorance, is dangerous. Educated men should oppose war when avoidable but when it becomes inevitable they should be its most vigorous advocates. No man ought to be too much educated...