Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...supplied. An international police force, perhaps, similar to the gendarmerie, should be created. Unless such a force is provided, small states will be able to defy the League and the larger nations will be powerless to prevent strife and war. I believe, however, that the League will be of great help in establishing permanent peace...
...persuaded to go because there is a great opportunity to influence, not only the teaching of medicine, but the future of the medical practice of the country. Endowed universities give the country its culture; state universities give it its education. State universities have a peculiar relation to the state government by which they can influence more directly than endowed institutions, the practice, not only of medicine, but of other departments. Many wise people believe that there is a distinct development in the direct state control of the medical practice. I agree with them. If this is true...
...club has been the only organization of its kind to write and produce its own plays. In 1914 it took its production of "Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater" to New York and met with great success...
...yield neither to Senator Borah nor any other man in admiration of the farewell address and of the great Fathers of the Republic, but I would not use them as a cover for present party politics. Never did I sneer at the farewell address; but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness...
Unfortunately it is all too true that in a very great many instances, popular elections throughout the country are only attended by a comparative minority. Smaller issues and candidates for petty positions are almost uniformly neglected by the better class of citizens. Hence there comes into power the crooked alderman and the "gang boss." This latter type could not exist if the voting privilege were universally used...