Word: existing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Editorial opinion [in British newspapers] is thoroly regimented. . . . News. in our sense of the word, does not exist...
Many of our Alumni now lie buried in foreign lands or beneath the seas. Their gallant sacrifice knits us still more closely to the country's future. We, the colleges, exist not to serve the ends of local groups of special cliques, but for the national welfare. Of that truth these war years will remind us, gentlemen, when we face the vast problems of the peace
Until public opinion, and particularly that in the more advanced of the democracies, fully recognizes the stark truth that peace can never be static; that it will never exist except as the result of the continuous effort and the unfaltering will of a majority of the peoples of the world; that its attainment can only come about as the consequence of Infinitely greater human effort than that which will be required to win the greatest of all wars, the search for peace will not be crowned with success...
What can we do to help? First, we have got to cut out this irresponsible, unbalanced criticism of the Chinese for things that do not exist or are not their fault or would be present in any country after comparable disasters. We have got to stop trying to force the Chinese to do what we think is best. They are an eminently reasonable people, but they cannot be browbeaten or coerced...
...change, said Dean Hanford, has been approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in order "to adjust the physical training program more closely to actual practice and conditions as they exist today." At the time the present system was adopted, the Faculty pointed out, the great bulk of students were going immediately into the armed forces; most of the men now going into the services from Harvard College are members of the Freshman and Sophomore classes...