Word: america
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...concluding, the speaker reiterated his statement that whatever way Russia goes, the future life of America will be changed...
...Americans. We cannot fight our government. We comply with the mandate of the court, but under protest." This statement of Mr. Lewis, representative of the United Mine Workers' of America, is one which renews the faith of the nation in the patriotism of one large group in our society. So long as there is a law, it must be obeyed. A free and democratic government is that which affords opportunity to the people to strike out or change what seems to them an unjust law. Ours is such a government; if enough people can be persuaded to their side...
...Beta Kappa Society was founded at William and Mary College in 1776, and is the oldest Greek letter fraternity in America. It aims to gather together those men whose first interest is in scholarship and intellectual pursuits. The Harvard chapter, established in 1779, comprises among its undergraduates presidents such men as John Quincy Adams 1787, James Russell Lowell '38, Edward Everett Hale '39; Oliver Wendell Holmes '29, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41; and among its orators and poets Charles Sumner '30, Wendell Phillips '31, William Cullen Bryant '59, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59, Henry Ward Beecher 1821, Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Songs to Fan the Flame of Discontent." It is interesting not because of its disorderly ferocity, which is certainly not characteristic of those to whom it is addressed, the workingmen, but because of the idea it advocates. It is a conception which has recently jumped into prominence in America, especially in Canada--the idea of the One Big Union...
...failed egregiously in 1914, it is proposed to have nations maintain minimum armies and co-operate to resist aggression. A large body of American opinion however feels, as does the Editor of the CRIMSON, that, while the rest of the world should be encouraged to adopt the third system, America should revert to the first. The more fashionable way of working for this end is to talk with General Pershing and Colonel Goetz of citizenship and illiteracy; the frankness of the CRIMSON is more desirable but less tactful. SYDNEY FAIRBANKS...