Word: insistency
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...make life more bearable to the soldiers, sailors and prisoners of war. If the men who listened to Dr. Mott's inspiring appeal are still unmoved, nothing we can say will have any effect upon them. To those who had the ill fortune to be absent, we must insist upon the importance of immediate action. The Y. M. C. A. is the one home influence, the one place of rest, the one amusement resort that the Army and Navy have. It is the soldier's oasis in the midst of the horrors of battle. The French and the Italians want...
...upon the necessity of this private and voluntary co-operation among Harvard men that we should now insist. It is useless to regret that the Government has not done better by us. It is rather now for us to show that we are resolved to utilize to the utmost the many advantages with which we are still left. The Government has not been ungenerous. In a time of scarcity it has left us our officers and held out the hope of equipment. And the University and the alumni have been very generous in encouragement and aid of every sort. They...
...countries. German scholarship is found to be pedantic; French scholarship to be superficial. Most intellectual lights, like Sir Gilbert Murray and Gabriele d'Annunzio, have found their refuge in acquiescent, even enthusiastic patriotism. Some like Romain Rolland preach tolerance in a foreign country. Bertrand Russell and Maximilian Harden who insist on academic freedom reap only dishonor among their own people...
...special obligation in that regard. As for the Ph. D. degree, that of itself would matter little. But nearly all the institutions of higher education in this country seem to regard the holding of that degree as one of the passports to a teaching position. Some college presidents virtually insist that they will appoint no one as instructor who has not been tagged with this title. Others will appoint undoctored instructors, but will not promote them. The thing has almost become a fetish. Yet even a fetish, when it actually exists, must be tolerated if we want to put Harvard...
...body "has authority to regulate all sports." But in the present situation, that is not the issue. Are we going to allow this power to die through inertia, and hope the necessity for its resurrection may never come, and that it will, never be appealed to, or shall we insist on a closer relation between authority and responsibility...