Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what he will write in the future remains cloudy. With a firmer reputation than that of the other young people, he yet seems to me to have achieved rather less than Robert Nathan and rather more than Stephen Vincent Benet, Cyril Hume or Dorothy Speare. His coming novel should mean a definite prophecy for future work. It is to be hoped that from it will be absent the seemingly inevitable flapper...
...Pacifism doesn't mean just refusing to fight when war comes," he said. "It means that in peace-time we must make real friendly contacts with all people; it means that we have got to get into human relations that make it quite impossible for us even to think of killing a German, a Frenchman, an Englishman, or an American. We pacifists failed before the war in that we had not produced friendly relations enough...
...bearing the cabalistic words "Go" and "Stop" be placed on the outside door of all student suites--to indicate the disposition of the inmates for social intercourse or academic meditation. It is not quite clear yet, whether "Stop" is to signify "Stay" or "Stay out", or whether "Go" will mean "Go in" or "Go home", but that, of course, will be settled easily enough by a general agreement of some sort of convention, so that the purpose of such symbolism may not be entirely defeated by wilful misunderstanding or simple ignorance...
Permit me, at this juncture of our inquiry into the godlessness of Harvard, to ask just what we mean by "godless". If Harvard is "godless" now, when, if ever, was it "godly" and what are the ear-marks of "godliness"? Do ablution, application of the Urim and Thummin, the wearing of phylacteries, and rhythmic beating upon the breast constitute "godliness"? Perhaps "godliness" is synonymous with regular attendance upon a house of worship. Or "godliness" may be consequent upon acceptance of a creed, say the Athanasian or its antithesis, the Nicene; perhaps even upon subscription to some system of dogma devised...
Just what is the significance of this landslide vote for the Peace Plan is difficult to determine. According to one of the most emphatic voters against the plan, "The results of this poll will mean absolutely nothing, because in general, those who favor the plan will vote for it, and those who do not favor it will ignore...