Word: candidates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Letters approving the Fund are being received with increasing frequency in the office of the Fund Council. If few of them show the candid eagerness of one contributor who wrote, "Please mail me another blank so that I may send more soon", the large majority are generously enthusiastic over the subject. The significant fact is that more and more of the Alumni are coming to realize that the Fund is for the many rather than for the few. "Being hard up myself", says one man, "but not wishing the gift to fail of unanimity." Another one writes...
...agriculture needs more careful consideration. While the Government is not to be blamed for failure to perform the impossible, the agriculture regions are entitled to know that they have its constant solicitude and sympathy." If the farmers' desire for assistance is "matched by an equally sincere and candid consideration of the different remedies proposed, a sound measure of relief ought to result...
...live honorably, and honored; for the life of honor begins early. Some things the honorable man cannot do, never does. He never wrongs or degrades a woman. He never oppresses or cheats a person weaker or poorer than himself. He never betrays a trust. He is honest, sincere, candid, and generous. It is not enough to be hon- est. An honorable man must be generous; and I do not mean generous with money only. I mean generous in his judgments of men and women, and of the nature and prospects of mankind. Such generosity is a beautiful attribute...
...Cancer, only two Manhattan physicians openly opposed Dr. Field's claims. They were Dr. David Bryson Delavan, a director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and Dr. Robert Tuttle Morris, emeritus professor of Surgery of the Post-Graduate Medical School. Lesser men talked with confidentially candid contempt. But only under promise that their names be not mentioned. They feared that their ethical confreres would charge them with publicity seeking...
...being as the total of reality it is given man to know in his time. The writing is fibrous yet delicate-again like a vine. The author, a mature maiden lady, is little known, save for a volume of children's poems (Under the Tree) called "graceful," "clear," "candid" by Critic Louis Untermeyer...