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...Harvard manifoldness or Harvard individualism a philosophy of live and let live, freedom of thought and speech and action carried to the furthest reasonable limit. And so those who believe in Harvard and its ideals make a virtue out of the very thing which the critics paint as the darkest vice...
...Their countrymen in Japan, the American Ambassador, Mr. Woods, his entire staff, and other American residents stayed with us through the darkest hours of our calamity like soldiers at posts of duty, giving aid and comfort to our stricken people. Disasters may hurl down monuments of stone and bronze, time may wear them into dust, but nothing can destroy our precious memories of American service and heroism during the most appalling convulsion of the elements in all recorded history...
...sale of the German patents were first made, although the sales were mainly completed by Mr. Garvan. Part of Mr. Palmer's testimony was his disclosure of the circumstances under which President Wilson and he had decided that the German patents should be sold: " It was the darkest hour of the War. . . . It was about the time that General Haig had said that Great Britain was fighting with its back to the wall. . . . the Secretary of War (Mr. Baker), on returning from the front told a party of 20 men at the house of Hugh Wallace . . . that...
...Neuvo Diario, principal Caracas journal: " This atrocious crime, which stands in the darkest colors in the annals of Venezuela, cannot have been by the hand of a Venezuelan, because such a vile and monstrous thought could not by any possibility enter Venezuelan psychology, which is the enemy of darkness and cowardice...
FLORIDA: The investigation of the Florida peonage system whereby convict laborers are flogged by " whipping-bosses " has revealed incidents fully as brutal and gruesome as any of the tortures employed during the Middle Ages. The press is unanimous in its agreement that it is one of the darkest blots on civilization in America. This system, whereby convicts are delivered under contract to turpentine camps at $20 a head profit to the sheriff sending them there, whereby flogging of prisoners to death is a common occurrence, has been speedily condemned by the Florida legislature, which voted 31 to 1 to abolish...