Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...appear so perfect that a reservation on Article X. will ruin it; or so bad that the present reservations of Senator Lodge are all that can save it. Concessions--mutual concessions by the President and the majority in the Senate--are the only means by which the really vital thing can be accomplished--immediate ratification of the peace treaty...
Still more regrettable, however, are the obvious implications of the editorial about religion itself; the spirit of cold, half-cynical and superficial intellectualism which pervades it: No one can challenge the CRIMSON's right to regard Dr. Speer's words--"Think of the most beautiful thing in the world and then conceive of God as something still more beautiful"--as an example of "narrow sectarian religion." But I for one am unwilling that these opinions of the CRIMSON should stand to the world at large, unchallenged, as the Harvard attitude toward real, personal, dynamic Christianity. I am theologically a liberal...
...looked forward to a discussion of broad religious problems with their economic and political bearings. What they got, for the most part, from the speeches in the big Coliseum was narrow sectarian religion. It is all very well to tell your audience to think of the most beautiful thing in the world and then conceive God as something still more beautiful--that was the substance of Dr. Robert E. Speer's address in the opening session of the convention--but this type of oratory does not impress the ordinary college man. Not all the speeches of the convention were...
...Those who have been envying the good fortune of the team in receiving a free ride across the country forget a few very important, and unpleasant details connected with the trip. All members of the team had to resume training shortly after they had broken it--an extremely hard thing to do cheerfully. They practiced on frozen ground in the Stadium when the mercury was not far above zero. They gave up a vacation to spend nearly a week on the train, practice for a few days, and play desperate football against a team which had never broken training...
...recognize these hardships! Let us give the team credit for all that is due them and more. Let us fill the station with a mob of cheering undergraduates to make them see that we understand what a great thing for themselves and for all of us they have done...