Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...maintained toward Mexico, Mr. Paine says, "a policy of allowing the Mexicans to rid themselves of a government which, in conjunction with unscrupulous foreign capitalists, has exploited and robbed Mexico." The gentle and humanitarian policy of "allowing" the Mexicans to "rid themselves" of oppression, etc., has seemed rather more like a policy of unwarrantable and secretly conducted interference, to the end of destroying the only hope of stable government that Mexico possessed, of plunging her into the years of anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico," Mr. Paine...
...coarse, across the water in about the same proportion that they are in America. The present war is not exactly a holy war. For every man who goes in it that the civilization of the world should be saved, there are a score who go in because they like the sound of imperialism, or because they hate another nation, or because they were drafted. Among those who go in for the finer motives and voluntarily lay down their lives for reasons that are the farthest removed from all material considerations, Americans, of "material" America, are not without their glory...
...Constitution the states shall determine their own election laws; so much is settled. There is much to be said for any state which, like Massachusetts, wishes to exclude, and in fact does exclude, from the electorate persons whose legal residence (and therefore, supposedly material interests) is not within the boundaries of the state. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for the exclusion of a large number of intelligent citizens from participating in the election of the president. Our local or material interests have, or should have, very little to do with our choice...
...reply to A. G. Paine '17's article of Friday last in defense of President Wilson, I would like to submit the following clipping from the New Bedford Standard, with slight additions...
...Coaches should be put on a faculty standard," said Mr. Day. "They should be like college professors, and you ought not to have any coaches who could not be used as tutors for undergraduates. It seems absurd that they should receive as much money as college presidents. They should serve for the love of coaching...