Word: helping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...voted against the present administration last November. During the past few months this same majority has criticized the re-elected President upon his slow manner of solving our international difficulties. Whether his methods have been right or wrong can only be properly judged by the next generation. We cannot help realizing that the obstacles in his path have been unprecedented in size and seriousness. The time has come for this majority to forget their preferences of last year and show themselves as whole-hearted supporters of the nation's leader...
...Mexico awaits the appearance of trained and competent leaders. Such a college with a faculty of skilled and devoted American instructors and directed to the "training of future leaders in Mexico in a spirit of sacrifice and devotion to the best interests of the country" would accomplish much in helping Mexico out of her present difficulties. Educational intervention would do much more than merely help the Mexicans, it would provide a solid basis for future development by helping them to help themselves...
Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Charles Eliot Norton were among the other who at the time of their death willed their own volumes to the College Library. The addition of Professor Muensterberg's books will help to increase the size of that collection which increases in historical importance as years pass. President Lowell's acceptance of the gift represents the feeling of gratitude felt by both students and Faculty. Far better than bronze or stone, it will be a living memorial to Professor Muensterberg's quarter of a century of faithful effort and accomplishment...
...Then right is action towards this goal. And retaliation is right when and when only it carries man forward. Whenever self-assertion against a molestor only makes matters worse for the community, the injured individual ought to submit and swallow his humiliation cheerfully. Gradually it was realized that self-help tended rather to aggravate disorder and injustice, rather than to prevent it, and now we sanction self-help in only those few situations where it is more constructive than destructive...
...action was taken. We cannot believe that Mr. Cecil H. Smith and his disciples are ardent pro-Germans. But for the good of the University, the country and the world, let us try to avoid such a hindering spirit, and to put in its place an honest desire to help the country up on its feet, eventually to enforce a lasting peace. PAUL W. INGRAHAM...