Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Kentucky and Tennessee, a chance would be given. In almost no other way can the men in the back country of those states and others ever receive any advancement. For six months they would receive instruction for the mind and the body and associate with college men. The fear of a spirit of Prussianism growing out of such a system is unfounded. A broader, more educated democracy would result...
...printing a communication on the Humphries meeting by the undersigned in last Saturday's CRIMSON an error was made which seriously misrepresents our position. In the sentence "Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the 'evolutionary' growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery, violence and destruction as has accompanied the Russian Revolution," you printed the word "revolutionary" in place of our word "evolutionary...
...doing in Russia is at least an improvement over the age-long terrorism of the Czar to those who condemn it. None of us maintain that the program and methods of Lenine and Trotzky are "Applicable to the traditions, institutions and aims of this country." Some of us do fear lest the suppression in America of free speech and check of the revolutionary growth of industrial democracy, if continued, may lead to the same pitiful misery, violence and destruction as has accompanied the Russian Revolution...
People who want to deal with Russia and Bolshevism by the taboo method imply one or the other of two things: either their secret fear that the Russians are working out a superior system, or their conviction that the American people can't be trusted to tell right from wrong. The first of these ideas belittles democracy; the second denies it. HAZELTON SPENCEE...
...suggestion regarding Bolsheviks and agitators should please those who have been quaking in fear of revolution, and his statement that "Labor must no longer be treated as a commodity" is a fair and just rejoinder to those who feel that freedom is a dead principle in America...