Word: heart
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...know my fame and outward aspect. But my sons alone know my heart. Not from narrow confines do my sons come to me. They make their way from the East, where I have grown from small beginnings nearly three centuries ago, side by side with the growth of a great nation and as an integral part of its faith and striving. They make their way from the West, where vigorous American manhood, with its face to the setting sun, hewed out an empire and established the fighting spirit of truth throughout a great land. They come to me from...
...goal of the boy in the preparatory school under the present regime is the passing of a large number of required subjects, the quantities and degree of advancement of each carefully set down in black and white. The more fortunate youths go to tutoring schools where they learn by heart answers to probable questions. In what way does this differ from a parrot learning the alphabet? Those of us who spent four years in acquiring the "canned education" necessary for admission to college would like to see the men coming on now in school have something in their mind...
...whether some nations will abide by the awards of the League any more than some labor unions abide by the awards of arbitration boards. The future is no more assured now than it has been in the past, nor have we arrived at universal brotherhood, the land of the heart's desire. We must provide for all eventualities...
...being the group of men which controls the minds of the people by owning the factories in which the people work, by owning and directing the newspapers which the people read, and by directing mounted soldiers (the Russians call such soldiers Cossacks) to intimidate and cast fear into the heart of the people; the workers are afraid to refuse wealth to these men; the rest are the workers, the producers. The first, simply, is that group of folk who live on unearned increment; the second, the great majority from whose extra toil comes the unearned increment in question. Mr. Carver...
...problem of Americanization attention should be paid to a happy combination of education both of the head and the heart. While it is necessary to read the constitution it is equally necessary to understand it and absorb its spirit. Among all the peoples true Americans are conspicuous because of their intelligent view of government as well as their love for their institutions. NEW YORK HERALD