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...tempted to ask the same question, with some-what less of pathos and something more of irony: "Twenty months ago a struggle for the Presidency commenced. But where are the men, the issues, of that yesteryear? Then was the springtime of political hope. Now is the autumn of political fruition. But where are the snows whence sprang this herbage...
...barred every effort. Other universities have offered him everything that he wanted in the way of equipment if he would only come to them. He refused, as you said in your editorial, out of sheer loyalty to Harvard, hoping against hope that he might be enabled to bring to fruition at Harvard the work which he had developed there from small beginnings...
...Name in which we can claim salvation-the name of Jesus Christ." This special mission was entrusted to the Dominicans (newly founded at that time) by an apostolic letter to Blessed John Vercelli. Organized in Portugal, the Holy Name Society spread through Europe and eventually came to its fullest fruition in the U. S. Originally, it was, in part, regarded as reparation for the "blasphemous Albigensian heresies." Purpose. The Society lays peculiar emphasis on purity of speech. But this ideal is extended to include purity of thought and life. "It gives its members," said a Bishop, "just that amount...
...President Harding in 1923), an international body of laws and an international army to enforce those laws. He advocates an international currency. The author traces the various schemes, from the prospectuses of the British League of Nations Society and the American League to Enforce Peace, to their fruition in the actual League of Nations at Geneva. He also advocates various methods for a League with "teeth...
...most part, incapacitated by the Victorianism of their training for the efficient management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed pacifism of Gladstone and the brilliant but wholly unmoral opportunism of Disraeli sowed has come to fruition, but the great Victorians failed to leave a generation capable of dealing with this dread harvest. Instead, they left a group of statesmen trained to govern a Victorian World, men stable financially, economically, and politically, but wholly incapable of doing anything more active than to look on with helpless bewilderment when the world...