Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More general is the criticism that fifteen scholarships are a useless if noble gesture toward Pan-American solidarity and good faith. But on more useless than are Rhodes scholarships for promoting Anglo-American relations. It is furthermore possible that other schools will follow Harvard's lead. The Refugee Plan, conceived and delivered at Harvard, has since grown into a lusty child supported by a number of eastern colleges. There is just as much reason that this plan should catch the fancy of other undergraduates...
...Storms from abroad directly challenge three institutions indispensable to Americans, now as always. The first is religion. It is the source of the other two - democracy and international good faith. Religion by teaching man his relationship to God gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors...
...Where freedom of religion has been the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force. An ordering of society which relegates religion, democracy and good faith to the background can find no place it for the ideals of the Prince of Peace. The United States rejects such ordering and retains its ancient faith...
...justice shall be the girdle of his loins; and faith the girdle of his reins...
...lost his religious faith a few years later, while foraging in a cherry tree, but found Grace again in the works of Ruskin, Carlyle, Emerson, Matthew Arnold, Walt Whitman (who often visited the Smiths) and Philosopher William James, also a friend of the family. At 23 Logan wangled a lump inheritance, went to Oxford. He never went back to the U. S., except for visits...