Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the broadening of education is one of the most vital problems which confronts the world today is the firm belief of Professor Levy-Bruhl, French Exchange Professor at the University. As France has suffered most in the war, so has it learned the most, and it is from the standpoint of this new enlightenment of France that Professor Levy-Bruhl speaks...
...time of reconstruction at hand today, France must make the most of the slender stock that is left her. We must start afresh to fill the depleted ranks of our scientists and scholars and we must choose as broad and firm a foundation as possible. Every child in France should have an opportunity to make the most of its latent possibilities...
...promise, but, unlike the Iron Chancellor who was a German and judged others by himself--Belgium looked for an attack from nowhere. She rested in false security, as everyone knows. Her government was riddled with German espionage; the forts surrounding Antwerp had been electrically wired by a German firm, so that when the stege later came, the wiring was worse than useless. Practically every high government official took orders from the Williamstrasse...
Furthermore, when the mayor of any city appears before a raucous mob which had not yet commenced violence, carrying in his hand a revolver with which he menaces as he orders dispersal of the crowd, and when this official happens to be a leading member of the law firm which has been hired to defend a negro identified as assailant of a white girl, who can answer for the safety of the foolhardy man? No wonder he was about to have been lynched...
Owen Wister '82, of Philadelphia, Pa., author and essayist; Thomas William Lamont '92, of New York City, of the firm of J. P. Morgan Co.; Judge Julian William Mack LL.B. '87, of Chicago, Ill.; Edward Hickling Bradford '69, of Boston, former dean of the Medical School; Ellery Sedgwick '94, of Boston, editor of the Atlantic Monthly; John Downer Pennock '83, of Cambridge, principal of the Boston Latin School; Benjamin Joy '05, of Boston, vice-president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation; Howard Coonley '99, of Boston; and Grenville Clark '03, of New York City...