Word: addresses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yield neither to Senator Borah not to any other man in admiration of the Farewell Address; ..... but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of the day in the face, and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before." These words, written by President Lowell in answer to Senator Borah's attack on him of his lack of reverence for Washington's last official words, are irrefutable. Looking the facts in the face is what the whole world must do unless it desires...
...yield neither to Senator Borah nor any other man in admiration of the farewell address and of the great Fathers of the Republic, but I would not use them as a cover for present party politics. Never did I sneer at the farewell address; but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness...
...statement was called forth by the severe condemnation by Senator Borah of President Lowell's remarks on Washington's farewell address and on the policies of the founders of the Union. The senator failed to find a "single patriotic paragraph or a single appeal for American institutions or the American systemic of government" in all the literature distributed by the League to Enforce Peace...
...surprise, Mr. President, to one who has examined the books of this distinguished, educator to read his comment upon. Washington's farewell address. It is in complete harmony with the cold, indifferent and ill-concealed contempt which everything American found throughout his writings...
Lieutenant-Commander Albert C. Read, commanding officer of the famous NC4, first plane to successfully complete a trans-atlantic flight, will be the guest of honor at a small informal dinner in the Trophy Room of the Union. Monday evening at 7 o'clock. He will later make an address at a meeting open to all members of the University in the Living Room of the Club. He will be accompanied by the crew of the NC4 and by three officers from the "mother ship", the U. S. S. Isobel. After the dinner Professor R. B. Merriman '96 will introduce...