Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard might be left in a very parlous condition; wept over as unregenerate by Cardinal O'Connell a short time ago, it now receives lusty buffets at the hands of one whom we take to be not in entire agreement on other matters with his eminence. Here is a dilemma, but escape from it is found in some words of the moderator's when he asks, "But what are all the arts and sciences, save as they serve mankind?" They are nothing and Harvard has always known that and acted on the knowledge as its guide...
...road from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines to the Coast, and the St. Paul faced the dilemma of perishing slowly for lack of through freight, or of entering into transcontinental railroading as a late comer. It assumed the later alternative and, in 1913, assumed the liabilities of the Puget Sound extension, after having advanced $155,000,000 to construct...
...future untangling of these financial skeins is dubious, yet the first steps must be taken. The attitudes of the governments must be clarified. Compromises must be effected, effects studied, and machinery devised. A path out of this international dilemma must be found, and the sooner the problem is faced, the sooner will the United States and France return, under clear and same relations, to their friendly entente...
...trouble, indeed, is not with Christianity, but in the way with which men practice it. Ideally, Justice Clark's dilemma is a true one; practically, it is not. Instead of merely pleading for religion, therefore, he must urge a moral regeneration of mankind, a true use of the precepts of Christianity. The prospect of peace is made all the more gloomy because in the present very materialistic civilization the practice of brotherly love scarcely extends beyond the home circle, let along transcends national boundaries. To pound home the very sordid conclusion that another war will forever wreck American prosperity...
...asset and a liability, and is consequently in a quandary. Her limited supply of cannon fodder has long been considered the weak spot in her armor against the prolific Hun. The deadly baby is Germany's strongest weapon in her ancient feud with France. The other horn of the dilemma is the fact that French economic strength depends on a society of small land-holders, so that a new born baby has almost as great a capacity for inflicting injury at home as abroad. At the Peace Conference M Clemenceau tried to solve the problem by destroying Germany. That plan...