Word: interpret
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...draft for a League of Nations which was brought over here by Mr. Wilson on his hurried trip was hastily thrown together and so clumsily phrased that even he cannot interpret clearly what it means. Comparatively few American citizens have read the draft at all, and so far as the American public is concerned, aside from the debates in the Senate and some critical discussion in the press, there has been no attempt to make clear just what effect any one of the twenty-six articles will have either upon the future of the United States or upon the future...
...Harvard--and the same is true for all our foreign students--have a determining influence upon the attitude of their native country toward America. We have every reason to be grateful for Mr. Matsuno's assurance that "it is the Japanese student educated in the University who will interpret to the Japanese nation the virility of American life and American ideals." The surest road to lasting international friendship is for the future leaders of the great nations to develop an attitude of mutual trust before assuming responsibility for the opinions of their fellow-countrymen. In this way prejudices and barriers...
...have entered the higher institution of learning, seeking the vital elements of American life, can truly interpret the cartoon. For we have seen Uncle Sam, who appropriates billions upon billions of dollars, making the men wear the uniforms of world democracy, and telling them to eat war bread, doughnuts, and molasses cakes in their dormitories. In our classrooms we have been proud to sit among his soldiers, equipped for the full duties of citizenship...
Harvard is doing a great work for us. We appreciate it. And it is largely the Japanese student who returns to his country, who will stimulate and foster international interest and friendship. It is the Japanese student educated in the University, who will interpret to the Japanese nation the virility of American life and American ideals. KEIZO MATSUNO...
...principle that what is applicable now will have to be modified by the next generation; that "good" and "bad" are relative terms, especially in politics. No arbitrary rules likely to become entangling precedents for futu4re statesmen are included in the pact. It remains for the people to interpret to modify or expand, and it is over duty as college students to prepare ourselves for the choice we must inevitable make. Whether we believe in President Wilson's ideals, or whether we think him and impractical dreamer, it should to our work first to study the facts, and then top speak...