Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...damages brought against the Cuban government by U. S. citizens. High were the crimes and misdemeanors of "El Gallo" as recited by the aggrieved petitioners. He had violated the Cuban constitution. He had illegally manipulated the rich national lottery. His administration had been guilty of extravagance, fraud, political coercion, assassination. Furthermore, he had trampled upon the rights of U. S. citizens. So maintained the petition, which suggested invoking the Platt Amendment...
...attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...
Chairman Requa hastened to reply that his words had been taken "too literally." Said he: "Any thought of coercive legislation is unthinkable." But the word echoed unhappily. From Washington came Senatorial rumblings that any policy of coercion would be "bitterly repudiated...
With regard to future diminution of the complete freedom of student determination Mr. Holmos' chief concern is to moderate alarmist fears: students are "not quite so likely" to live exactly as they choose; there will be "little coercion in the whole undertaking"; "the Houses will not leave students quite on free." But Harvard men are not interested in the degree of restriction contemplated. They dopier the change in kind that makes an estimation of degree necessary...
...duties of the small college within Oxford as its most prominent function. Discipline is a word uncongenial to Harvard ears; surely no plan of subdivision here whatever might be its direction could be intended toward the extension of discipline. If discipline be taken to mean guidance as well as coercion, however, this assumption becomes much less sure. The new Harvard plan of House residence with its provision for constant and close contact between tutor and student can scarcely fall to produce the type of discipline which Professor Morison describes as characteristic of Oxford: "His (the student's) individuality is respected...