Word: minds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other feature which 1922 must bear in mind is that it is at present more separated than any Freshman class since the Class of 1917; half its members are in two Freshman dormitories and the rest are scattered throughout Cambridge. Any occasion which will tend to unite these elements and develop a more normal condition should most certainly be encouraged...
First of all, we should differentiate our terms. A "League of Nations" through continued repetition has become so much identified in the public mind with the hope of permanent peace mind with the hope of all war, that many even of the most intelligent men confound the two, and criticism of a League of Nations is denounced as advocacy of war and hostility to peace. Nothing could be more dangerous than this. The whole subject is one of such vast importance and hostility to peace. Nothing could be more dangerous than this. The whole subject is one of such vast...
...almost equally shameful thing if now, after all the sacrifices which have been made and which have been accentuated through lack of timely preparation, we should be lulled to sleep by sweet sounding pleas for universal peace through a League of Nations, seducing us into a frame of mind where we should feel that we need never again prepare ourselves for self-defense. It may not be in fashion now to speak of Washington or his Farewell Address, and it is true that we have gone far since his words of warning were first spoken, but. Washington said...
...passes his last year at College on the Yard, all the associations of Harvard will naturally revert in his mind to that historic place. When he remembers his college days, he will remember the Yard, the faces and scenes of the Yard, and not the newer buildings of Mt. Auburn street. His college will be the college of the Yard, and its memories will be closely interwoven with the memories of his class. And this is only right, for the Yard, after all, is the real Harvard, and embodies and crystalizes the activities of the University...
Lincoln died because the abnormal mind of J. Wilkes Booth was persuaded he was a tyrant. McKinley was stretched on his bier because Czolgosz believed what yellow journalists told him. Clemenceau is on a bed of pain because a man was stimulated into action by poison distilled from the false charge that the great peacemaker was an imperialistic friend...