Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn these four years to the best advantage, will do well to think over the "fundamental principles" suggested by President Conant as guides during a college course. Surely the principle he stresses is supremely important; clear and dispassionate deliberation of the problems at present besetting mankind. And it is a truth recognized by all who have lived the academic life for any length of time that it presents better than any other the opportunity for just such lucid thought...
...plea, those who have the opportunities of the best education attainable continue to think in after life as they have been instructed in college, the light of truth now burning so precariously, should gleam more brightly than ever once the present crisis is passed. Minorities will always govern mankind; why not the educated, instead of the corrupt...
These are the great and enduring needs of mankind in life's struggle. The possession of such qualities is plainly the most valuable asset a college man can have. American colleges and their students will do well follow the counsel of President Hopkins, and redouble their emphasis upon such basic virtues. Surely America need not go further in educational experimentalism and radical abandonment of conservative teaching principles than even Soviet Russia finds it fruitful to go. --Boston Transcript...
That boldest of bold Jews, massive, magnetic, organ-voiced Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, gave the World Jewish Conference in placid Geneva a mighty rousing last week. "We Jews are in the front-line trenches," he cried. "We are the 'Belgium' of the latest German war against mankind. The mighty army of Christendom and Civilization stands behind us and around...
...vast financial reserves which caution has gathered can be placed behind the new ideas and methods developed by research, and we shall be on our way toward a higher standard of living. ... I affirm the duty of industrial leaders to hasten this development, so pregnant with good for all mankind. . . . The good life lies ahead somewhere along the road of abundance, and we shall find it by continuing in that direction with stout hearts and open minds...