Word: cool
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the Boston Massacre to the present, we have seen that to summon armed force before it is needed can only act as a provocation for violence. The ability to keep cool in a crisis is unhappily too rare. Where it occurs, the crisis usually passes off without further friction. In labor disputes, perhaps more than anywhere else, violence can never be justified except as the last resort, in the face of actual danger. Its untimely use is invariably disastrous. When once we realize this, our labor conflicts will be at once less bloody and less frequent...
...socialists, not the rounding up and temporary imprisonment of inoffensive aliens, but freedom of expression and open-mindedness are the methods by which improvements must come. The times are serious; and we should profit by history. There is little cause for our terrified excitement and alarm. The country should cool down...
Harvard University has sometimes been misjudged by the ignorant or the feather-headed as a community where unessential are too highly regarded; experience of years and the cool impartiality of the record alike lead to the conclusion that at Harvard there is a valuable freedom from self-consciousness rather to be envied than decried. Too many undergraduate bodies--and too many persons long outside the academic enclosure--are so keenly concerned lest somebody else think lightly of their actions, that they neglect action for stodgy speculation. Before now, Harvard has had good ideas which she was not afraid...
Throughout the past season, his first in "University" football, Horween remained cool under the most trying circumstances and played hardest when the outlook was most black. Against Princeton it was the example of his determination which kept the team fighting when all others thought the game was lost. As leader of the Harvard defense in the Yale game it was largely due to his combined judgement and strength that Braden was stopped a few inches short of the goal line. At Pasadena, where he won for himself the name of "Eagle Rock," his defensive power was again outstanding...
...University eleven is to be congratulated on having as a captain a man who has shown himself a natural athlete, a cool-headed general and a fighter 'till the last whistle...