Word: documents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reservations, shows that he fails to understand the present attitude of the American people. Nine months ago a referendum would undoubtedly have showed a majority in favor of passing the Treaty intact. But the Republicans chose to use their majority in the Senate to play partisan politics with the document of Versailles until it has become an issue between a treaty with some reservations or no treaty. And the majority of Americans support the former choice...
...desires that the treaty be adopted intact, but that seems impossible. At the Peace Conference he wisely compromised on several points, following the doctrine, as he styled it, of "intelligent expediency." It was a calamity that the Senate should have played politics and refused unqualified ratification of the document that promised to mean so much to the world. But it will be worse than a calamity if the treaty is refused entirely. Unless a League of Nations to minimize the possibility of future conflicts is created, the war will have been fought in vain. The treaty with reservations is certainly...
...when we went into Cuba to terminate the intolerable conditions there, and as we did in this war, to help civilization. We want to do it; we want that question disposed of now and not brought into our general election, because people cannot vote intelligently on a question, a document, of that kind. Not one person in a thousand has ever read the treaty and very few can understand it. Great pressure should be put upon the Senate and the President to pass this measure. It is not becoming in me to speak without respect of the President...
...filling brains instead of developing minds. This is inevitable. The present academic system, bad as it is, results naturally from the fact that the majority of college students are not students at all; they are guests of an institution which will, after four years, provide them with a document valuable to the continuity of a family tradition or in the furtherance of business enterprise. The nonchalance of the undergraduate is met by the rigor of the system. The majority will not think; they must memorize. We do not admire the present institutions, but we must dig far deeper than...
...full of works by Samuel Johnson and his contemporaries. Among the rare first editions on exhibition are the Johnson's "Dictionary of the English Language," his "Life of Pope," all of the "Rambler," Rasselas," "Irene," Fielding's "Tom Jones," and Sterne's "Tristram Shandy." Also there is a document signed by Queen Anne and a letter from Johnson to Sir Joshua Reynolds...