Word: indictment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent and regrettable death by his own hands of a Princeton sophomore raises the number of student suicides since January to twenty-six. In suite of the fact that his action was probably due in the main to ill health, and can hardly be said to indict Princeton's social or educational system, the already much discussed whys and wherefores of the epidemic have revived...
...Small. Last fortnight they also had a special grand jury sitting to expose wholesale ballot-stealing, box-stuffing, gun play, voting the names of dead men, kidnaping, false returns and intimidation by hirelings of the Republican machine in grimy precincts of tough Chicago. This jury found fraud enough to indict 44 judges, clerks and election officials...
...what if there follows a little matter of probation for the whole class? Every freshman who has ever been to preparatory or high school knows that Edmund Burke demonstrated long ago that you can't indict a whole nation, or a whole class either for that matter...
...negative definition there must be added one which is affirmative and constructive. In any such formulation Independence and Liberalism must stand as twin first principles. To make a college daily a mere enlarged version of the official bulletin board and a pleasantly written broadside for faculty opinions is to indict the mental energy and the moral courage of its editors. To make it a propaganda sheet for stand-pattists is to give up the heritage of youth: the mission of reform and reorganization...
...Summary. "I indict the Republican Party in its organized capacity for having shaken public confidence to its very foundations. I charge it with having exhibited deeper and more widespread corruption than any that this generation of Americans has been called upon to witness. I charge it with complacency in the face of that corruption and with ill will toward the efforts of honest men to expose it. I charge it with gross favoritism to the privileged and with utter disregard of the unprivileged. I charge it with indifference to world peace and with timidity in the conduct of our foreign...