Word: never
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...them. Hence it happened that I then formed no personal association with my classmates, and always felt remote and as if I presented the picture of a forlorn little fellow who ought to have been at home. To this day I have never got over an awe of them that I have never had of anybody else. . . . I recollect no instruction which was not of the most perfunctory and indifferent sort, unless possibly it was that of Professor Cooke in chemistry and Professor Child in English. The only impression made on me by one professor was that of a pair...
...other hand, thought the demeaned himself by association with these public servants. Yet these same friends who would not soil their hands, they say, by entering the arena, would not hesitate if their pockets were threatened by legislation to hire some lobbyist to act for them, and never feel a qualm as to any questionable methods that might be used. In England men of education and men representing property rights go into public life and present their views fairly in debate and fight in the open forum for the principles in which they believe. In recent years in this country...
...eyes to the hardships and struggles going on in thousands of homes to earn a sufficiency for existence, it should teach them to appreciate the view-point, of the other side, to see how easy and yet how unjust it is for the one who inherits money but has never earned a cent to hold aloof and criticize; it should make them realize that it is just to levy taxes on inheritances...
There was never a time when greater events were transpiring than there are today, when educated minds were more needed to help solve the great problems confronting us. The question of preparing this nation on land and sea so that it can meet any possible foes is one of the burning and most discussed topics of the hour. American men will not lie down and allow their country to be invaded without making determined resistance. Such resistance can be effective only if we have an efficient army and navy...
...under Professor Baker. But as things stand at the present time, with the financial side of the theatre so prominent you won't get a good theatre. There will not be an American Shakespeare until we get a theatre he would be willing to work in and he would never work in the American theatre as it is now. Let us get the theatre as firm and decent a thing as we can, so that he can do his best when he does come. The truth of the drama is lost to us now, but one thing we must keep...