Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seas more precious than the lives and activities on land, which would be burned up by war? Against sea rights we must set the rights of those who stay at home to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." We must remember that much of our progress toward more freedom of opportunity and more enjoyment of human rights would be arrested. Such constructive undertakings as the Constitutional Convention in this state would go by the board. The war against poverty and disease and evil would give place to a war against men. The large percentage of American industrial workers...
...stand dogmatically for war or peace. What we stand for, above all, is a democratic and enlightened method of deciding whether war or peace is our duty. What we are fighting against are the Prussian methods and spirit, which do at least seem to threaten Harvard's ideals of freedom and reason. We hate this Prussianism at home more than Prussian submarines abroad. This spirit has taken two marked forms already. I speak now of one only...
...action. If war should come it will be the duty of every man, young or old--a duty in which I know the men of Harvard will not fail--to do everything in his power to serve the country and to secure a victory in a contest which involves freedom and democracy and in which our own security would be at stake. If war should come we must never for a moment forget that the individual life is nothing in comparison with the life of the country, and ever bear in mind the words of Bacon that "the chief duties...
...daddies. College is a place to loaf, to invite the soul, to complete an education in athletics, to form pleasant friendships, to take the first steps in sociology, to relieve the mind of those traditional notions that restricted the comprehension of the new art, the new politics, the new freedom. Study is alien to the college; it would intrude on time that might be worthily spent in fashionable activities and no modern faculty would for an instant encourage it. If athletics is not the first aim of college, why is the football coach paid three times, four times, the salary...
...Granting freedom to the Philippines, helping China stand on her own economic legs and an honorable solution of the immigration question, were cited as three steps the United States must soon take to avoid a clash with Japan, by Gardner L. Harding '10, at a largely-attended meeting of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society at the Hotel Westminster Saturday evening. The subject of his address was "Must We Fight Japan?" He said...