Word: propaganda
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University. The spirit that backs up the football team is a good thing. But can't some of it be enlisted in support and commendation of the initiative of the Speakers' Club and the co-operation of the Union? An "Oxford Union" at Harvard has been the propaganda of visionaries for years. If we are ever even to approach it, now, in "the year of the war," is the time to give the movement its initial impetus...
...leaders of the movement hope in the future to enroll many college men in their cause, and to spread the propaganda throughout the country. If the manifest advantages of the system can only be brought before the people it will most certainly be insured of success...
Without for a moment accepting that definition of the economic purpose of the Progressive party, it is encouraging to be assured that the Socialists see in the Progressive party the most immediate and formidable obstacle to their propaganda. The more people realize that fact, the swifter will be the disintegration of parties which fail to recognize even the existence of the real problems of the day. The Progressives are quite willing to be recognized as the great conservative force in the political conflict which actively beginning in 1912, is to go on for years to come. Mr. Henderson believes that...
...will stand squarely on the National Progressive platform although I do not believe that all the propaganda contained in that document can be embodied in practical measures in one or even in several sessions of legislatures and Congresses. I am firmly convinced that the Progressive party will persevere until it gains complete control of the Massachusetts legislature; and therefore it must begin...
College literary magazines generally meet like two dogs, but the June Monthly makes its comprehensive review of similar publications a helpful discussion of just what such publications should aim to be; and finally works out a very satisfactory creed--to wit: "A magazine which makes sensationalism or journalism or propaganda its first concern has no right to the name literary"; and again: "We aim, not to be professional, or in any cheap ways distinguished, but only to be as excellent as possible in the field of amateur literature." So, if amateurs in literature can do as well as they have...