Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...practice in morrischairs; the swimming team would like to hold their races in bathtubs. Doubtless, but --. Harvard men do not always spend their time avoiding disagreeable work. Our much-envied string of victories over Yale and Princeton proves that there are some men in College who are not afraid of cold weather or hard, unpleasant, grinding practice...
...Suppression of any sort is a consequent loss of originality. Even though the obnoxious idea in question is momentarily crushed, and the man who advanced it is discharged, there is a doubly evil effect--the question is brought into greater prominence than before, and others professors find themselves afraid to step at all beyond the limits of complete conventionality. For fear of suppression they dare not carry on their work nor their investigations...
...after all, the university gains the greatest support if it has in its faculty the greatest, the most fearless men--men who are not afraid to give voice to their beliefs. Personally, I think that the Endowment Fund has profited much by the universal realization that here at Harvard there is no attempt to standarize the individual...
Every day brings with it a deeper unrest, a growing antagonism between capitalists and laborers, between radicals and conservatives. Neither side is willing to meet the other; the radical leader is afraid to discuss the situation with the conservative because he thinks it impairs the confidence placed in him by his constituents, the conservative avoids intercourse with the radical because he has decided against radical ideas per se or because his reputation may suffer. He is likely to be called a Bolshevik sympathizer, and with that, all his opportunity for constructive criticism ceases. And the two factions drift...
What capital and labor need is a legal backing to their agreements. Unions should be incorporated; breaches of contract on either side should be made punishable by law. Then capital would not be afraid of sudden walk-outs and labor would have no fear of injustice...