Word: lippmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lippmann's Speech...
...speech, that perhaps more than any other sounded the keynote of the convention, Mr. Lippmann stated that the purpose of the liberal is not to form a particular party, or accomplish a particular program, but to find out means of providing modern democracies with the information they need. No one pattern can fit the whole world, for the world is varied and the nature of man intricate: neither can a group of men in Paris decide what the world is to remain; or one in Moscow decide what it is to become. For the improvement of human society is something...
While not launching a new cult or a get the liberals Mr. Lippmann said, call themselves by that name because they believe that in the courageous and intelligent development of the principles of liberalism lies the best hope of a new and spacious civilization...
...that knowledge by which the opinion of majorities is formed. To this work of informing the citizen the liberal should largely devote himself, staking everything upon the as he can find it, and asking of the no reward in riches and fame. Happy is the nation", concluded Mr. Lippmann, where consecration like that is not too rare...
Miss Mirkin, of Tufts College Medical School made one student reply to Mr. Lippmann, and II. B. Davis, Harvard ocC the other...