Word: man
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yield neither to Senator Borah not to any other man in admiration of the Farewell Address; ..... but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of the day in the face, and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before." These words, written by President Lowell in answer to Senator Borah's attack on him of his lack of reverence for Washington's last official words, are irrefutable. Looking the facts in the face is what the whole world must do unless it desires...
Lynching is a denial of the right secured by law to every man accused of a crime to a fair trial before an established court. It brutalizes the communities which suffer it by breeding a spirit of lawlessness and cruelty in those young people who constantly witness barbarities unpunished and uncondensed. It blots our fair fame as a nation, for we cannot claim to be civilized until our laws are respected and enforced and our citizens secured against the hideous cruelties of which we are constantly furnishing fresh examples...
...yield neither to Senator Borah nor any other man in admiration of the farewell address and of the great Fathers of the Republic, but I would not use them as a cover for present party politics. Never did I sneer at the farewell address; but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness...
Harvard will today act as host to the man who was first to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air, Lieutenant-Commander Albert C. Rcad. Members of the University will have an opportunity to hear personally from Commander Read of his experiences, when he will speak at the meeting in the Living Room of the Union at 8'clock. Preceding the meeting there will be a small dinner given in his honor in the Trophy Room of the Union at 7 o'clock. commander Reads talk tonight is the first one of a series which the Graduate Manager of the Union...
...man who strikes at the present time should have no more consideration from the public than the one who wasted food during the war. The latter stole good health from the men at the front; the former is stealing physical welfare from all the people at home...