Word: foresworn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through this mill or is a genius, he cannot know his subject. And there are not many geniuses in this country. Writers like these attackers of the Ph.D. want personality stressed. The CRIMSON in a recent editorial wanted the same thing. Yet it never suggested that scholarship should be foresworn for personality. The great question which faces the American university is how it can develop both in its graduate students...
Thus it is evident that freedom implies more than the destruction of obstacles in the way of Truth. It implies responsibility. Nor have Harvard men at any time foresworn responsibility. Some words have less illumined connotations than others. Responsibility to many must remain a gray word. Cambridge is a gray place. New England to the Puritan eye which first sighted the rocks of an uncongenial coastline from the small but purposive "Mayflower" was a gray land. The Puritan mind was a gray mind. But Harvard College owes its existence to that gray land, to that gray mind...
...every right known to God and man. We must stop the money from going to Peking to buy arms to kill us, just as your forefathers stopped taxation going to the English coffers by throwing English tea into Boston Harbor. Has the country of Washington and Lincoln foresworn its faith in freedom and turned from liberator to oppress Ask the officers and men of the American warships to ponder this before they shoot...
...Abbot and all the Government meteorologists have foresworn longrange weather predictions. The maximum they can risk their reputations on is 48 hours. They will not commit themselves as to the coming season, but many an amateur weather prophet is predicting a long, hard Winter...
...half dollars to help the struggling mark get on sol'd land is being contemplated. But France pooh-poohs our offers of assistance; she knows that Germany doesn't need it. Only a general German reversal of attitude will clear the skies. Premier Cuno, an honorable man apparently, has foresworn the policy of his predecessors. Said he a week ago: "There is no central force within economic circles strong enough to take the leadership out of the hands of the government under any circumstances. Only an active policy of constructive cooperation can bring us any profit". Herr Stinnes, the leader...