Word: fearless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after all, the university gains the greatest support if it has in its faculty the greatest, the most fearless men--men who are not afraid to give voice to their beliefs. Personally, I think that the Endowment Fund has profited much by the universal realization that here at Harvard there is no attempt to standarize the individual...
...third and last speech, by President Lowell, dealt with his elemental, his fearless simplicity. "He was one of the men who was ready to stand up and think his own thoughts, trust his own thoughts and act upon his own thoughts. And he was ready to do what he thought without regard for the fact that somebody would criticise it tomorrow, knowing that it would justify itself the day after...
...name of Cardinal Mercier has been added to the long list of church princes contributing to the glory of history. He denounced the German outrages in fearless terms and gained, through his bold utterances, the love of his people and the respect of the world. A Belgian gentlewoman voiced the feeling of her nation when she said: "We have three great men in our land-the King, the Cardinal and the Minister." The last is none other than our own Brand Whitlock. It is given Harvard University to see the first two of this great little nation's great...
...once had and this is the more regrettable because of the gravity of the new issues confronting all the nations of Europe and of the world. With the red flag flying on more than half the public buildings of Europe, there never was as much need of a free, fearless, and independent press as today...
...most beloved and the most hated of any public man in America. This restless dynamic spirit carried him from the White House to the jungles of Africa and South America, from ranching on the western praries to leading his men in action at San Juan Hill. His fearless Americanism in the Venizuelan trouble with Germany made the Kaiser exclaim afterwards, at the height of his power, that Roosevelt was the one man in the world he feared...