Word: civility
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...Codman, as Chairman of the New England Civil Liberties Committee, is in charge of the work in their defense. Miss Flynn has been addressing Meetings in behalf of the two Italians and was arrested in Philadelphia on March 6 for alleged "seditious utterances" in regard to their case...
...Because I like a pinch of salt in my soup is no reason I wish to be immersed in brine", he might well have been speaking of the modern labor union. There have been workingmen's associations in America since the beginning of the industrial era long before the Civil War. That they have earned an important place in our social organization is unquestioned; the abolition of chattel slavery in the South found its parallel in the relief of wage slavery in the North. But their quest for wholesome working conditions and a living wage has led the unions...
...Codman is a Boston lawyer who has been appointed chairman of the New England Civil Liberties Committee, and Miss Flynn is an organizer of the Woman's Defense Union. Miss Flynn comes to Cambridge under the release of police in Philadelphia, where she was arrested for alleged "seditious utterances" on last Sunday...
...only a shortage in the will to carry out the known facts. There are enough clever men in France, England, Italy, and Belgium, as the International Finance Conference clearly showed, who know the limits of what can be fulfilled. But these states have not the leaders with the civil courage to carry out what they know to be true on account of fear from the disappointment that such action would arouse in their own countries. A war of 4 1-2 years duration and a short-sighted, sinful peace, whose destructive results have wrought a two year's havoc...
...country, has had an interesting history. Organized in 1741, under the title of the "Governor's Company of Cadets," it has maintained a practically uninterrupted existence up to the present date, and still holds important special privileges accorded it by the Commonwealth in 1786. Through the Revolution and the Civil War the First Corps of Cadets served with distinction but its greatest service in the latter emergency lay in sending to the army over one hundred and fifty men, trained in its ranks, to hold commissions. This record, repeated in the World War, makes a peculiar appeal to undergraduates ambitious...