Word: maxime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sale of Arms. The raison d'être of the Conference was, as implied by its title, to control the private manufacture of, and the traffic in, armaments of all kinds. How was it to be done? Discussion narrowed the question down to a maxim that non-arms-producing States should not be placed at the mercy of arms-producing nations; or, inversely, nonproducers would be made producers. It followed that the sovereignties of the participating States should in no sense be infringed...
...musical selections, the conferring of degrees, and 16 speeches by the Young Gentlemen on such subjects as De Fructu ex Auctorum Gracorum et Latinorum Lectione Assidua, Percipiendo; On the Distinct Province of Poetry and Eloquence; On Sensibility to Public Opinion; The Pleasures and Effects of Early Friendship; On the Maxim that Virtue Is Essential to the Character of an Orator; a "dispute" On the Comparative Pleasure Derived from the Works of Art and Nature; a "colloquy" On Alison's Theory of Taste...
...prizes and scholarships and degrees with distinction must, therefore, use publicity to attract, interest, and hold the attention of the great mass of students, just as the reward of fame attracts and interests them in the world of athletics. Academic machinery has managed to carry into effect the maxim of athletics for all; why should it not assume the more important, if superficially disagreeable, duty of making scholarship for all a reality...
...Judge Florence Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court declared that mankind's conviction that war is necessary must be changed, that the maxim "the state can do no wrong" must be changed to "the state shall do no wrong...
There were also three awards for distinguished individual advertisements. Mr. L. Hayward Bartlett of the Eastman Kodak Company received the $1000 award for the advertisement most effectively accomplishing its purpose in a few words. His caption was the now well known household maxim, "Keep a Kodak Story of the Children." The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Erma Perham Proetz each won $1000 for two advertisements entitled "100 Years to a Day" and "Take Baby...