Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have advocated an energetic effort on the part of the University to enroll men whose homes are in more distant parts of the United States. Such efforts are in my mind very essential to Harvard whose very foundations consist in developing an individual philosophy, self-reliance, and broad-mindedness in her students...
According to the above letters, Senator Lodge intends to limit the discussion to the specific plan adopted by the Peace Conference, while President Lowell desires that a broad interpretation be given to those articles...
...League of Nations as read by President Wilson art the Peace Conference on Friday. In the word "Possible" is to be found the true meaning of this document. In many ways it falls short of the ideals for which President Wilson has stood. We find in it no broad principle of religious toleration, no recognition of the part played by commerce and trade in starting a war. We are bewildered by the complex wording, by the vague statements which seem to settle nothing in a permanent...
...just brought to a successful conclusion. When Death cut short the full but unfinished career of Lincoln, thereby bringing loss equally to friend and foe, his plans for national reconstruction were based upon the lasting principles of "malice toward none, charity to all, firmness in the right." In a broad sense these are the ideals which America is even now staunchly upholding at the Peace Conference as the only tenable program of international reconstruction...
...doing, he was always ready to change instantly any plan or belief, if convinced of its error. He was optimistic, trustful, and appreciative, of boundless energy in the pursuit of truth, and as willing to receive as to give advice. He was an unwearied executive, equally tireless in making broad plans and in carrying out elaborate details...