Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once more the bitter truth is driver home that the American democracy has no room for intellectual giants. Idealists, geniuses; thinkers when placed in high office, are cramped and bound by an inelastic mass opinion. They may struggle, as Wilson and Hughes struggled, to escape this bond--without success. Charles Evans Hughes will be called a great Secretary of State because he stretched these chains farther than others, but as a whole his diplomatic record is a history of the mediocrity of American democracy. And who will ask why he resigned...
There is no question of a doubt but that Harvard needs one badly. Sanders Theatre, appropriate for lectures, readings, and formal occasions, is inappropriate for large mass meetings and general assemblies. Even the living-room of the Union is inadequate for many functions, as evidenced within late years. The presence of a famous speaker, the joint reunion of classes, important celebrations, football mass meetings--all these demand a large auditorium such as Memorial Hall offers...
...visitor from Europe cannot fail to be amazed at two features in the American college system: first, its extreme newness and tremendously rapid growth; and second, its accessibility, at any rate as compared with England, to the sons and daughters of the mass of the people...
Court proceedings, which began at Dedham, Mass., on Nov. 5, 1923, occupied 184 full days, involved 4,000,000 words of testimoony and 954 exhibits, last week came to a close. To arrive at a decision the jury deliberated four days before giving a verdict for the plaintiff-a record case...
Charles R. Brown, New Haven S. Parkes Cadman, Brooklyn Henry Sloane Coffin, Manhattan Russell H. Conwell. Philadelphia Harry Emmerson Fosdick, Manhattan Charles W". Gilkey, Chicago George A. Gordon, Boston Newell D. Hillis, Brooklyn Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, Maiden, Mass. Lynn H. Hough, Detroit Charles E. Jefferson, Manhattan Bishop Francis J. McConnell, Pittsburgh Bishop Wm. F. McDowell, Washington, D. C. Mark A. Matthews, Seattle William P. Merrill, Manhattan G. Campbell Morgan, London, Eng., at present in Manhattan Joseph F. Newton, Manhattan Merton S. Rice, Detroit Frederick F. Shannon, Chicago Robert E. Speer, Manhattan John T. Stone, Chicago William A. Sunday, Winona...