Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...groups, all more or less mutually-exclusive and all contemptuous of each other's accomplishments. Academically bound to an educational system which smacks of the idea of mass production and offers no unifying force. Harvard undergraduates have formed distinct and exclusive groups among which they hesitate to intermingle for fear, perhaps, of losing caste...
...chief fear of the educational forces now gathered at the Capital seems to be not so much that the bill will fail to gain attention as that it will be met by a proposal to combine the Department of Education with the Public Health Service. It is considered that each Department will operate more efficiently if independent, and in particular that the energies of the Department of Education will be wasted if they have to be subordinated to the purposes of the Health Service...
Birth control propagandists are in the habit of imputing interested motives to their opponents, as that doctors fear loss of obstetrical patronage, clergymen want a plentiful supply of church members from the "lower classes," military men want "cannon fodder," politicians want voters, captains of industry want cheap labor, etc. "Foxes think large families among the rabbits highly commendable," writes Thomas Nixon Carver, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard...
Arguments Con. Opponents of birth control base their objections chiefly on the danger of widespread immorality if contraceptive information is freely available, especially to unmarried persons. The fear of pregnancy they believe to be the most effective check to promiscuity with the majority of people. Birth control is artificial, unnatural and an offense against the laws of God, in the same class with abortion and infanticide. On the medical side, there is also the fact that some methods are injurious to health...
President Coolidge has, however, the almost universal confidence of the business community, and his unusual power of silence has so far won him respect and trust rather than fear or misgivings. If vetoing is required, most business men believe he can and will veto...