Word: brotherhood
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...studiously rude to them. The foreign delegates tied themselves to no party at the Conference. They are not going to give up the idea of the League and they are trying their best to get us into it. They know that world organization is the only hope for world brotherhood. If America thinks she is going to scrap international co-operation she is very much mistaken...
...program and organization, more important by far, is the acceptance of the spirit of Brooks House as the ideal toward which the social and religious interests of the students of these countries should be directed: It is thus that the idealism of mutual service, of practical morality, and of brotherhood is being carried to universities all over the world by men who have been tough these principles at Brooks House. The Harvard man never loses his reverence for high standards of scholarship, nor does the Brooks House man lose his devotion to high standards of service...
...operation of the liberal forces of mankind, and who really think that the United States can "go it alone". They cannot be expected to contribute to a fund named in honor of a man who pledged the good faith of the United States to the cause of brotherhood among nations...
...moved solely by self-interest", he declared, "but also by motives of racial antagonism. That is the great danger. It means contempt and suspicion among all countries and the estrangement of nations between whom there should be the fullest degree of confidence. Men must acquire a spirit of international brotherhood and good fellowship, without which radical change of sentiment no agreement or peace can ever take place...
...world by stopping its ears. We have seen too many recent examples of Harvard professors who are in the thick of the fight to be greatly disturbed when anyone accuses us of "respectability". Indeed the whole notion that colleges and their professors concern themselves soley with members of their "brotherhood" is unjustified. Strange that journals professing to lead advanced thought should not comprehend the fact that present day colleges are far too dependent for their existence upon the world of affairs to remain complacently aloof...