Word: concorde
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...forgotten by their exclusive worshippers, that the contemporaries of today will be the old masters of tomorrow, and that the function of the enlightened is to select them. He dwelt with considerable warmth on the part which Art and its appreciation plays in overcoming national prejudices, and securing international concord, concluding with a tribute to French genius...
...Paul's School, Concord, N. H., moves another figure very visible upon the educational horizon - the Rev. Samuel Smith Drury, rector. Thought of by many as a formalist because of his dignified, clerical presence and rather stiff manner in public, Dr. Drury is at heart, and in method, a humanist. He believes in atmosphere. He believes in being "one of the boys"; walks with them; works with them; remembers their first names forever; keeps abreast of their family affairs. His school is noted rather for the stamp of cultured, urbane gentility that it imparts to its graduates, than...
...Concord was the post-Cleveland keynote at the White House where the President, in a number of social occasions, undertook to 'bring the several elements of his Party together...
...nations, "contracted in rude and ignorant ages." We forego the advantages of our birth into an enlightened age if we do not shake off national prejudices as we would the local superstitions of the Old World. In a day when legislators only cloud the sky of international concord, this out-reaching spirit of Yale is one of the redeeming forces which serves to draw East and West closer together...
...have often said I do not believe war is an eternal human necessity. I wish and hope and foresee a future of peace and concord among peoples of equal culture...