Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary to cope with them. No student need defer his participation, in their solution until after graduation, for there is simple opportunity for vital service by undergraduates. Postponement of social service is not only unnecessary but is also likely to be unwholesome, in that it leaves the humanitarian impulses--so essential to human progress--unused during a period which is most favorable to their development. Habits of generosity or of selfishness towards one's fellows are easily formed, but broken with difficulty. In the period after graduation in which the student finds or makes his place in the crowded world...
...ordeal of the Paris Conference with an increased reputation. His work of food conservation is so well known in this country that it even seems to hide from many people the magnificent work which the commission acting under his guidance accomplished for our Allies abroad. Aside from the humanitarian point of view, Hoover was one of the very great material factors which this country lent toward defeating the common enemy. Furthermore, let us never forget the extraordinary assistance afforded Europe in the first half of 1919 through the agency of Mr. Hoover and the American Commission of Relief...