Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Albert, the First, honors Harvard with his presence tomorrow. It is a privilege to live in a generation which has seen men like Albert of Belgium...
Last year 200 men enrolled in ten groups. If like success is attained this fall a second series will be conducted after Christmas with different leaders and different subjects...
...should like to ask Mr. Borah whom he regards as an ultimate authority on statesmanship. He once declared that if the Savior should reappear on earth and support the league, he would nevertheless vote against it. And yet this illustrious senator terms President Lowell a traitor to the past because he does not apply the words of Washington, uttered more than a century ago, to the events of today. Surely the senator from Idaho is oddly inconsistent...
...more than a generation American statesmanship has persistently striven to avoid, ignore or forget an inconsistency in our American institution whose existence is a blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror for nine hours, culminating in the felling of one citizen, the serious injury of at least two others, an unsuccessful attempt to lynch the Mayor of the City, and the successful lynching of a prisoner charged with a heinous crime,--are but the eruptive symptoms of a disease which has eaten...
Lynching, like Slavery, has never recognized racial or geographic limits; as the fate of the Mayor of Omaha forcibly reminds us. Hundreds of white men in this country have been victims of lawlessness and mob violence; it was the lynching of a Montana labor leader that called forth President Wilson's utterance of July 26th. It cannot be confined to the South: excluding New England there is not a single section of the Union which has not been the scene of at least one lynching in the past 22 years. The evil is national in range and scope; the nation...