Word: professed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reaction; and yet the tradition of Harvard has always been liberal. From the days of the bitter church controversies in the early nineteenth century, through the recent war, Harvard has stood for Liberalism in a much more truthful way than many of the great or small colleges that profess to be open to "all the people." When one recalls that the first active collegiate Socialist society was founded at Harvard some ten or twelve years ago--(when Socialism was decidedly unfashionable)--it is amusing to find that in certain quarters liberalism at Harvard is just being discovered. To some, tolerance...
Terrorism is one thing America will not tolerate, and if violence is attempted today, those who are responsible for it will not only themselves suffer, but the cause they profess will have been irreparably harmed...
...clear what the paramount problems of the next four years will be. The major political parties are slow to join issue on any of those which seem likely to be highly controversial. All candidates alike profess to stand for peace, retrenchment, and reform. We know that Mr. Hoover is a fair-minded and a progressive minded man. We belive that the problems of the future are most likely to be solved with success by the man who has successfully solved those of the past. I hope that the efforts of the Hoover League of Harvard will help to bring about...
Doubtless the authors of the above-mentioned communications will brand all who do not show a wordy zeal equal to their own as "Bolshevists," "traitors," and the like; but the problems which they profess so high-handedly to discuss and solve are not at all as simple as these youths would have us believe. The lads are doubtless well-meaning, but let us hope that they will learn that temperance, even when dealing with the most difficult problems, is a good thing. It comes with experience...