Word: clamoring
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...Harvard persists in its spirit of academic reserve, of stalwart refusal to admit that the "vox populi" is always the "vox Dei". It has at all times been a leader in American education because it has sought the Truth, and not because it has followed popular clamor. It has insisted on its right to set its own standards, no matter how defective they may have been; and in its students it has recognized the creative power of the individual and the small group as against the control of the crowd. The West may stand for that vague thing we call...
...cold grey hour of seven is at hand?" As a matter of tradition too, the answer has been forthcoming "Nobody knows, and nobody seems to care--" except the long suffering Seniors who are fated to sleep, or rather to try to sleep, in the immediate vicinity of the clamor...
...before, and puts her faith not in promises. England and America should by this time be ready to do the same. Only when Germany has carried out the conditions of the Peace Treaty, cut down the size of her police squadron and "civil guards," paid her indemnity, ceased to clamor for the days of Kaiserism, and actually settled down to become a peaceful productive agent in the markets of the world,--only, then will it be possible to put faith in the re-creation of the Teuton mind...
...have done and left undone all the important things. Labor wants immediate action on the immigration question; others want relief at once from the heavy burdens of war-time taxation. And to make matters worse the long-suffering Congress has only-till March 4 to satisfy popular clamor...
...openly of the domination of elections by small cliques of club men and athletes is the chief offender. At the same time inveighing against the "clique" which "controls" them, and refusing to take themselves any share in bettering conditions, they stand in the way of reforms for which they clamor...