Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Members of the University are invited to attend the meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History in Boston at 8 o'clock tonight. Professor Joseph Barnell, of Yale University will speak on "The Age of the Earth as based on recent Developments in Radio-activity." The lecture will be illustrated by lantern slides...
...ramifications that it should not be determined by a mere reiterations of slogans and cries. It is a subject which calls for very deep consideration and for logical thought. Theoretically, we all favor peace. We should be glad if the curse of war could be swept from the earth, but there is something worse than war and that is national dishonor, and there is something better than peace and that, the preservation of national sovereignty. If it were certain that a League of Nations would bring about universal peace without impairing the sovereignity of the United States or the dampening...
...power on earth could erect the standard of infallibility in political opinion; there is no being that would resort to it with more eagerness than myself, . . . . But as I have found no better guide hitherto, than upright intentions and close investigation, I shall adhere to those maxims...
...Faculty leaders of each group would be there to modify our extreme views by the common sense of experience and to lead our minds into new channels of thought. Thus the student would grasp new ideas, launch them enthusiastically, have them tempered and brought down to earth by opposition, and evolve practical opinions which make for construction...
...citizen, man and man, employer and those whom they employ." Turning to the results of the Peace Conference President Eliot said, "The best outcome will be an enduring compact between the British people and the American people to keep the peace and promote the good relations of the earth." President Eliot expressed a belief that if the "force of law," were backed by "an overwhelming force of army and navy" it would prevail...