Word: handed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school shows at least that he is a good citizen of the college, and that he is concerned in maintaining its standing on a high scale as regards its publications, athletics, administration, music, and dramatics. Without honor men the college could not acquire a scholastic standing; on the other hand, without its extra-curriculum activities Harvard would not be able to function on the same basis as other American colleges. The one is as essential as the other. Blanket condemnation of private schools, based on the scholastic standing of their alumni in the colleges, is foolish and absurd...
...this, there is a longstanding custom whereby disloyal citizens and spies are used as targets for a firing squad. And if there are any ministers or editors whose compassion so overpowers them that life will be no longer sweet without their loved ones, they, like Judas, may go hand themselves. "The world will little note nor long remember" their departure. JOHN M. WYMAN...
...Covenant is largely and essential-ally an American document. First, America led the way in the creation of the League. As Dean Haskins said recently in Sanders Theatre, we should ratify promptly in order to "save our self-respect." Very concrete evidence is at hand to show that the Covenant is essentially American. Article X is practically a verbal reproduction of President Wilson's fourteenth point. This Article has been called one "heart" of the Covenant...
Indeed, the convention made a real contribution. It pointed the way to possible future gatherings guided by practical ideas and discussion, gatherings which would be of inestimable value to the country and the world. The material was at hand. That the conference did not accomplish much of a practical nature was not the fault of those who guided it. They did not intend that it should; its purpose was religious from the start...
...special industrial branch of the government should be organized to carry on research work, and to make available data essential to the settlement of a crisis such as that just caused by the coal strike. The will is not lacking but the material is not now at hand...