Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace, permit ourselves to lose any part from this structure of patriotic unity. I make no plea for leniency toward those who are criminal or vicious, are open enemies of society and are not prepared to accept the true standards of our citizenship. By tolerance I do not mean indifference to evil. I mean respect for different kinds of good. Whether one traces his Americanism back two or three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his Americanism of today is real and genuine. No matter by what various crafts...
...outlines of Pittsburgh, the rest of the world watched with a growing interest the tiny town of Locarno where two old enemies, Germany and France, were trying with the help of their neighbors to covenant a lasting peace. And a treaty was born at Locarno, a treaty which may mean the salvation of Western Europe. For Germany and France have at last created a land barrier between them which is to remain forever neutral soil, and in the contingency that either of them crosses this zone for the purpose of making war, Italy and England have agreed to come...
...this quotation does the CRIMSON mean to insinuate that it is possible for even the mightiest mind, the weightiest arguments, or the most clever arrangement of facts to refute the teachings of Jesus Christ? Does it mean to infer that in the college the student learns these secret disproo's? That here his "ignorance" --the "ignorance" to which he must submit in order "to revert to religion . . . against his reason"--is shattered? That here he learns to despise Christianity because he has either discovered or been taught facts or "arguments . . . (which) . . . refute (the) words" of Christ...
Does the CRIMSON really mean to assert and hold that for this product of the college, this "man" of superior intelligence and "occult" knowledge, that for this man "to revert to religion goes wholly against his reason"? That he has had implanted in his reason" facts and arguments which refute Christ's teachings...
...Especially in the strain that leads to man can we note the increasing spread of habits of cooperation, of unselfishness, of love. The survival of the 'fit' does not necessarily mean either the survival of the 'fittest' or of the 'fightingest.' It has meant in the past, and I believe it means today and tomorrow, the survival of those who serve others most unselfishly...