Word: explain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will address a meeting under the auspices of the Harvard Mission, and open to all members of the University, in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, Thursday evening, at 7.15 o'clock. His subject will be "The Spirit of Modern Missions and Reconstruction Work." In his talk Mr. Clark will explain the great changes which have taken place in the purpose of the missionary movement during the past 25 years, and will show the broad nature of the work performed by missions overseas and the great tasks to be accomplished in reconstruction work...
...gave instruction in all branches of modern education. He was also the editor of a newspaper, which reached all the Indian Christians in the empire. At the present time he is the candidate secretary of the American Board and is visiting the colleges and universities of this country to explain the true spirit of the missionary movement...
...interested in social service work will have an opportunity to learn definitely about this year's plans at a meeting in the Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock. Speakers will explain the nature of and the need for social service work in Boston and vicinity...
Certainly the rest of the letter adopts a very different tone. "Mobs will be mobs" it says in effect. "The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain it cause. . . . only to be expected . . . . who can answer for . . . . No wonder . . . ." Moral censure is certainly an ugly thing, and one likes to see it deprecated; but such deprecation to be effective should be consistent. If Mr. Rosenblatt writes in this truly Christian spirit of the lynching, then the least he can say of the original assault is that criminals will be criminals; that, in view...
...crimes by negroes, the escape of most of the criminals, in spite of police vigilance, and the mediocre and insufficient punishment administered by the courts, the outbreak of a lynching fever was only to be ex-expected. The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain its cause...