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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...solved at all; and they can only be solved through contributions from many different classes of men viewed from many different angles. "We are standing upon the threshold of a new order; of that period in the history of the world when men are ready to cast aside old ideas like old machinery. This is a period of great changes; there is a question mark against absolutely every line of thought and activity. The idea of democracy in this country came into existence about one hundred years ago, and we are just beginning to realize that if democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MANY SHOWED INTEREST IN SOCIAL SERVICE | 10/7/1915 | See Source »

...hailed the play as a distinct success. It is the dramatic story of the adventures of two bad boys and a clever dog, the latter being in the New York Heralds estimation, the leading "man", who "played" with finesse and "tact". "Young America" was written round the juvenile court idea, and with this institution as a background; the author has treated the life of the youthful offenders with such understanding sympathy that he brought forth many such comments as that of the New York press: "Memory fails to bring to mind a more human and affecting bit of playwriting than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PLAYWRIGHTS SCORE BIG SUCCESSES | 10/4/1915 | See Source »

...well as the cause of humanity, ought to make every country desire peace among others as well as for itself. This is universally admitted by our people today. It is accepted as an axiom; but the means to the end are uncertain. We have been fascinated by the idea of arbitration, of an international tribunal, of conferences at the Hague, of treaties to regulate peace and war; and yet everyone knows that in the relations of private individuals such arrangements, valuable as they are, would be insufficient without a power to enforce them. In private life, contracts would be broken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOULD FROM LEAGUE OF POWERFUL NATIONS | 9/27/1915 | See Source »

...President of the Faculty Addresses by members of the graduating class: 1. "The Idea of the Golden Age," Douglas Hilary Corley 2. "The Present-Day Approach to Theology," Sireno Carl Weist Hymn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theologians Graduate Today | 6/21/1915 | See Source »

...Idea of the Golden Age," Douglas Hilary Corley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES AT TWO CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTIONS | 6/19/1915 | See Source »

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