Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American University Union in Paris has been the most popular rendezvous for our college men abroad ever since the United States entered the War," said Professor at the Sorbonne from 1916to 1918, and a member of the American Board of Trustees for the Union, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "A total of 140 colleges and universities are represented in the Union, which is now located in the Royal Palace Hotel, at No. 8 Rue de Richelieu. Now we are making plans for the future...
...should be carefully noted that throughout his discourse President Lowell did not once refer to President Wilson. The Covenant which he discussed was not "Wilson's plan" it was the plan of the best brains which the allied countries could furnish. The popular conception, unfortunately encouraged and fostered by President Wilson himself, that he alone is the father of the ideal and the doctrine, is as erroneous as a similar conception that Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence. Increasing antagonism to one man rule, which was apparent in the audience every time Senator Lodge mentioned the administration, will prevent...
...intend to discuss the particular problem of the Covenant of Paris rather than the general proposition of a League of Nations, a more valuable purpose will be served. Even the opponents of the present draft admit that a league of peace, under whatever name, is theoretically desirable, and that popular opinion demands some organization for the future prevention or limitation of war. But the real cause of the difference of opinion between tonight's illustrious speakers is the constitution President Wilson "brought how in his pocket." This is the subject of immediate national importance. Should they fail to unite...
...other isms. The legal aid movement is growing and those who are willing to make the sacrifice for it will do a more lasting service to mankind than they can now realize for civilization must rest upon law, and on order to have law effective it must be popular with those who must submit...
...have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future of the world. With a proposal of such momentous possibilities pending, it is inconceivable that the people of the United States should be tied up irrevocably to an international program without the opportunity of amendment or popular debate. The one thing clearly definite about the proportion is that it must tend to the elimination of national lines, the deadening of the spirit of nationality and the subordination of our own home interests to misty visions of international bliss. The spirit of internationalism bliss and bolshevism is abroad...