Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they do not see the reason of this argument, the public does. The latter receives no increase in wages, but shares the same burdens. Federal investigators claim that yielding to the workers demands would mean a ten dollar extra tax on everybody. For a small minority to attempt to force such a liability on the nation is criminal. This movement must be fought to the finish...
...frankly, what reason is there for anyone to become indignant at this lack of interest? Under the present system of choosing officers it is inevitable. The candidates stand for no platform, there are no conflicting issues, so that the prospective voter is not able to choose an officer because of what he represents. Nor may he be guided by some one man's special fitness for the office, because almost any man would be able to discharge suitably the not onerous duties of a class officer. So the whole matter becomes one of friendship. Only a man's personal friends...
...competitions of the club furnish opportunity for a wide range of talent--by no means exclusively histrionic--and will offer attractions to future Inces and Grifflths, as well as our incipient Hampdens. The Dramatic Club has every reason to expect a showing of talent which will produce performances of the usual high standard...
Professor Ripley does not think that Bolshevism is the principal cause of the labor trouble in the United States. "Of course, the European situation has an effect on American workingmen, but it is not the primary reason for the strikes now prevalent in all parts of the nation," he said...
...emotions and visions. They do not think straight--often they do not think honestly. Radical reformers are too often filled with so many emotions as altogether to lose sight of the safe and sane. The difference between a genius and a fanatic is the difference between emotion tempered with reason and emotion without the calm which comes from a true education and the proper use of the brain. The world is troubled with an abnormal education of the heart and too little education of the head. A balance should be struck...