Word: foolish
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...nation is willing to pass a high-sounding resolution in favor of peace, and in any peace convention which is to do efficient work the difficult is not in passing such a resolution, but in preventing the passage of so many such resolutions as to make the convention appear foolish in the eyes of practical men. But the minute the question arises of actually applying the principle so easily enunciated in the abstract the difficulties in the way are seen to be of the most formidable character...
...Peace must come, if it is to be of the slightest good, as the child of justice, and not of weakness,--a fact that should be remembered by the foolish and short-sighted people who objected, for instance, to the fortifying of the Panama Canal and to the building up of the United States Navy. The efficiency of the United States Navy and its ability in very fact to guarantee by itself the neutrality of the Panama Canal will add immensely to our practical efficiency as a people in working for peace; and the surest way to destroy all power...
Those irresponsible, foolish members of 1913, who by their unseemly behavior brought shame on their class and their College, have spoiled a good record carefully established by preceding classes. They have made of no avail the labors of their class officers and committees, for a class dinner which has to be stopped by the police is far worse than none at all. The failure of 1913 to hold an orderly dinner is a strong argument for the ending of the Freshman dinner custom...