Word: faithful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less sanguine guardians of the faith, folk who regard Yale's official action as a weak-kneed surrender to rashly importunate youth, had solace in simultaneous news from Smith College. There, young U. S. women expressed either a more conservative attitude toward religion, or greater contentment with the system as applied, by voting 1,081 to 209 to retain compulsory chapel at Smith, a ratio just about inverse to similar votes of late years at Dartmouth,. Yale, Amherst, Vassar...
...yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world of tomorrow which must be different because he wills it so; if they will only stand erect before him, in no pride of authority, but with unquestioning faith in the scientific tools they have pain-fully learned to use for the progressive revelation of that world to its maker-to-be, and with unquenchable enthusiasm for the value of that revelation, the college need not fear. Its future is secure." This may be too much akin to sentiment...
...would have us believe, the students of today are quite different from the undergraduate generations of the nineties. It is true that students are now vitally concerned with all they do and all that is done to them. No longer are they accepting rules, regulations, customs, or traditions, on faith. Reflecting the analytical tendencies of the professional, scientific, and literary man, the undergraduates are no longer content with anything until it is proved correct by analysis. There is nothing yet to show that this tendency is beneficial to the community. It cannot be said certainly that the many educational innovations...
...that they may become well rounded citizens of Worcester or Back Bay or even New York, or another who is writing books so fast that someone is going to buy one before he knows it, though I don't quite see how. For really I have a lot of faith in human nature. Just when you think that there is no hope and that everything is going wrong, someone does some such positively assinine thing that your faith is completely restored. One can do one of two things, to be dogmatic; he can keep facing the sun until it blinds...
...attempt on the part of labor to seize control of the government by force. The question of bad faith on the part of government operators or labor leaders is only the apparent issue in what seems to be developing into a struggle for mastery between the labor leaders and the Government. All England is rapidly developing into two camps, the Trade Union group and the Parliamentary group. Unless some compromise can be arranged the question will arise whether England is to be governed by Parliament or by the Trade Union Congress. That issue depends upon the outcome of the strike...