Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...various intervals a United States Senator momentarily forgets his official dignity and plays the buffoon to the great delight of the chamber, the galleries and the nation. There are times when a member of the legislature can play the sedulous ape and relieve the tediousness of law making without consequences detrimental to his own reputation, the state which he represents, or the august body of which he is a member. However, now that Senator Helfin of Alabama has recanted and admitted that he delivered his oratorical acid of a day or so ago in "fun", it appears that the laughter...
...speech bristling with denunciations and innuendos it was not their duty to separate the wheat from the chaff. Indeed, if senatorial "fun" of Senator Heflin's brand can be checked by a fear of the "villains" of the press galleries, it is advantageous for the sensibilities of the nation to have the correspondents present...
...payable until the contributions of the country at large equal the amount of $460,000 already donated to the million dollar campaign by greater Boston. Much is at stake, however, during the next few weeks because of a full in the contributions which have been coming in from the nation-wide campaign, and it is incumbent not only upon the graduates of the University but upon all garden and tree lovers throughout the United States to renew their interest if the two proposed new research courses are to materialize...
Aside from the substantial addition the Arnold Arboretum makes to the equipment and resources of the University and the indebtedness of every Harvard man to the late Charles Sprague Sargent for the colossal achievement in making the Arboretum the successful natural research institution it is today, the nation itself cannot afford to ignore the tremendous significance of the Arboretum, Artistically and economically its influence might well be said to extend throughout the world. It certainly fills a unique place in American, and while the importance of the study of plant genetics and the hybridization of trees may present only vague...
With the greater Boston limit seemingly reached the success of the campaign will now depend upon the response of the nation to its appeal. With large committees working in most of the major cities, with the worthy and deserving cause, with University graduates behind it, there is every possibility and hope that the goal will be attained and the Arboretum enabled to enter upon another phase of its active and beneficial work...