Word: congressmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among those who attended the ceremony were representatives of the Harvard Club of New York, about 40 Congressmen, former President William Howard Taft, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, former Justice Charles Evens Hughes, General Peyton C. March, and a delegation of Rough Riders who served under Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. There was no music and no eulogy. The only departure from the ritual was the reciting by the rector of Colonel Roosevelt's favorite hymn: "How Firm a Foundation." During the day Army airplanes hovered over the grounds of the Roosevelt home...
...American colleges will discuss proposed changes in the existing intercollegiate athletic system. Although the association will express its opinion on these changes only be resolution, yet it is voice will have a great effect on the country at large, One thing upon which all colleges and their athletic congressmen are agreed is that athletics in some form should be continued. The number of men who have done better in military service because of their athletics training is such that the position of athletics is no longer debatable. They have proved their value in peace-time and they are doing...
Many questions of national character allow discussion by Congressmen and citizens according to the dictates of party sentiment. Republicans may argue against Democrats for the continuance of a high protective tariff and justify themselves on the ground that they are upholding party principles. The serious questions before our country today should provoke intelligent discussion on an entirely opposite basis. The intense feeling of political antagonism that was rampant last fall ought to be non-existent now, when instead of the magnified aims of a particular faction being in the balance, the cherished honor and rights of the whole nation...
...years the petty desires of our Congressmen for personal gain and political success have blocked all efforts by the few leaders of international vision to partially prepare this country against the dangers that are now so imminent. This very minute when the granting of power to the President is the only means by which this country can fulfill the recognized functions of a respected country, a few Senators are still consciously swayed by party influence and forget the nation. Let them serve as an example to the majority in the University. The present crisis demands a leader. The country...
...from our insistence on entering the war-zone established around the sea-coast of the Entente Powers, constitutes a casus belli, why may we not put into practice the sound policy embodied in the ill-fated McLemore Resolution, tabled, contrary to the best conviction of the majority of our Congressmen in response to dictatorial party pressure brought to bear upon them? In thus warning our citizens off belligerent vessels our Government would be acting not only in conformity to the practice of Sweden during this war, but also in harmony with the precedent established by Great Britain herself during...