Word: matters
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unanimous action, and while it is perfectly obvious that no member of the Faculty or of the teaching force as a whole should be asked to make any greater sacrifices than he is today making to sever the University, the fact that every one of them gave something, no matter how little, will help to make the Endowment Fund the great contribution to the spirit of the University which it should...
...unanimous action, and while it is perfectly obvious that no member of the Faculty or of the teaching force as a whole should be asked to make any greater sacrifices than he is today making to serve the University, the fact that every one of them gave something, no matter how little, will help to make the Endowment Fund the great contribution to the spirit of the University which it should...
...after considering the matter from this point of view, you feel that you can make a subscription to the fund and wish to do so, the Endowment Fund Committee will be very glad to receive any such subscription and will recognize the sacrifice involved and the spirit in which it is given. If you do not feel that you can make any subscription, the Committee will be entirely satisfied with your own decision, and certainly has no wish to urge you to do anything that you cannot see your way clear...
...Laski holds no such extreme view, and that his regard for what he considers the ill-treatment of the Boston police caused him to say what he did. He is not so much in sympathy with the strikers as he is against the uncompromising attitude of Commissioner Curtis. No matter how far in the wrong the latter may have been, whole-hearted sympathy with the striking policemen cannot be. The argument used so much by their attorneys that they did not strike until assured the city was safeguarded does not hold. If they had known this there would have been...
Third, admitting that William Brown, the negro lynched, was guilty, and even deserved the death penalty the citizens of Omaha have presumably elected city, officials whose business it is to administer justice. The moment that a single citizen "took the matter into his own hands" he transgressed the law of the state and of the nation, and, in killing Brown committed murder. Furthermore, he introduced into Omaha the principle of anarchy. The individual became superior to the government and to the law. If we want mob law in our country, why not go about it in an orderly fashion...