Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...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...
...specialized training for a job has certain advantages. It teaches a man to do one thing efficiently and to stick to it. Here at College one is too likely to skim over surfaces, entirely neglecting the really important things which lie beneath. The student finds himself confronted with a maelstrom of ideas out of which it is hard for him to separate the wheat from the chaff. He finds it hard to maintain his convictions when such excellent arguments confront him on the other side...
Second, President Lowell believes that the thing has another heart--that is, Article XVI. In his letter to Senator Walsh he says that he introduced into the program of the League to Enforce Peace the third provision relating to economic and military sanctions, the teeth of the League. When the Commission on the creation of a Covenant for a League called for the programs of the League of Nations organizations of the various nations the program of the League to Enforce Peace figured very strongly and its essential features were incorporated into the document, Article XVI being part...
...women who have given, not their money, but their lives, to the task of founding schools and curing the sick in foreign lands was repeated with new fascination. Dozens of doctors, teachers, and agricultural workers came to inspire with their presence the new generation of collegians. But the best thing in our civilization, said the leaders of the convention, is our religion...
Bishop McConnell of Denver tried to answer the other questions. "The hardest thing the field worker has to contend with," he said, "is the example of his own country. Every time that a man puts a piece of chocolate in his mouth, he is exploiting the raw products of Africa. We must put humanity above production, and see in Mexico 15,000,000 human beings and not merely copper, and oil, and the possibility of rubber plantations...