Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Americans Most Humanitarian...
...Europe, is there no challenge for you today to sacrifice and share somewhat the terrific burdens of these young men and young women of whom I have been writing? We claim to be the most idealistic nation in the world. We still hold that Americans are more interested in humanitarian efforts than people of other lands. The efforts of our American educational institutions and hospitals in many lands bear witness to the desire of countless Americans to share with other lands their struggle to alleviate suffering and to make progress toward the light...
...very sad and strange thing that the greatest and most powerful, as well as the most generous and humanitarian of peoples, should have been betrayed into shirking its plain duty of cooperation in world affairs through this splendid channel, the most hopeful ever created,--by the timorous conservatism and petty politics of a few men in the United States Senate. It seems likely that it will take at least five or six years to overcome in America the impression of suspicion and dread of the most Christian attempt to cooperate for the good of all ever seen in the world...
...genuine appreciation of college work (Mr. Whitman's suggestion of "visiting" lectures announced in the CRIMSON is a step in this direction): that would grant more freedom to all students, and reward candidates for Honors and Distinction by granting them even greater freedom; that would tend rather to the humanitarian conception of a college than to the present machine-like theory that is so prevalent. In fine, a college that would breed into its students that indefinable thing called culture, which implies knowledge, the ability to use that knowledge--and character...
...values. In the fear of putting utilitarian motives uppermost, the committee goes too far to the other extreme, and forgets that however fine abstract memories may be, and however eager the University is to express its gratitude in the most ideal terms, still there is a higher ideal--the humanitarian. To perpetuate the Past is a purpose with which college men will sympathize; but the more immediate concern must rightly be the Future. There are crying needs in the University which must be met at once it the great traditions and purposes of Harvard are to be upheld. Surely...