Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Prussianism" with which the "Union for American Neutrality" was greeted. In two of the eleven poems in the number-- "My Peace I Leave With You," by Robert S. Hillyer, and "The Hour," by W. A. Norris--one hears at least an echo from the present upheaval of mankind. Otherwise, except for Mr. Hunt's contribution, everything might be going on just as usual outside of Harvard College. It is a curious, and rather disturbing, phenomenon...
...surprise. It is true, of course, that the cry of academic freedom is bound to be raised whenever an attempt is made to put any damper on these ebullitions, but to the minds of most laymen there is no good reason why a decent respect for the opinions of mankind should not characterize the utterances and actions of scholars as of other...
...country join resolutely in frowning Mr. Bryan down. Our captain is lining up his men and nerving them to courage and self-sacrifice. Heaven grant that no intermeddling politician disguised as a saint may in the name of our mothers and our children be permitted to appeal to mankind's overmastering instinct of self-preservation and love of self-indulgence...
...given us to believe that it possesses a mind of its own, inquiring and open, deliberative, not easily to be shaken. But not so in these when the world is drunk with state-sickness and when to be a liberal and an intellectual, a moderate and a lover of mankind is to be damned as unpatriotic...
...Wars in the future are likely to become more rather than less barbarous, and mankind must either lose its civilization in the blast of war or contrive some means of stopping it," President Lowell remarked at a dinner at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill., Saturday evening, held by a committee of 70 for the stablishment of a state organization of the League to Enforce Peace. The object of the dinner was "to consider a program for a permanent league of nations to become effective at the end of the present war." President Lowell will return to Cambridge today...