Word: brotherhood
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...Splurge Eternal Brotherhood...
...little shred a while we look on and yaw. There are some men in college, some men in their third year in Harvard College, who haven't much idea what it is all about, and are really quite bored with the whole affair. In a spirit of all brotherhood we advise such men not to attempt to enter the editorial competition...
...taken on in innumerable engagements a ferocious character that no man, trusting to the humanity of this modern age, could have believed. Times uncounted it has been reported that German troops have held up their hands in surrender, pleading piteously, "Kamerad!" with that stirring appeal to brotherhood which awakens kindliness in any man. And then, when the attackers had spared them and passed, they have turned and fired uncomrade-like volleys at those who had granted, them life...
Cecil Rhodes, empire builder, dreamed a dream of universal brotherhood. It was, of course, merely a dream; for during his lifetime Rhodes was too busy advancing the imperial interests of Great Britain to do any practical work toward unifying the human race. He worked mightily in behalf of his own nation, and then, in his will, provided a plan for eliminating national lines and for bringing all nations together. The contrast between the deeds of Rhodes, and the desires expressed in his will is striking. It is the contrast between working and dreaming...
...Rhodes scholarships have accomplished little or nothing toward establishing human brotherhood. The foreign students have taken advantage of the opportunities, but they have not gone forth to preach any ringing gospel of peace and good will. They have returned to their respective fatherlands uninspired to lead the world. Their love of England has not been increased merely because they have benefited by the posthumous philanthropy of one of the most intensely English of all Englishmen. It is conceivable and probable that the knowledge gained at Oxford by some of the German Rhodes scholars is now being used against England...