Word: nihilistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard men will remember that H. U. N. S., or Harvard University Nihilist Society, announced on Thursday its own birth and principles, condemning all presidential candidates, holding "100 per cent Americanism" to be unconstitutional, ridiculing college politics, and abhorring all partisanship. The society also announced at that time that it would hold a monster torchlight parade on Monday, the day before election...
...addition to the fact that the presidential candidates would march in person, "Member No. 1", the anonymous leader of the Nihilists, announced that Bob Lampoon, the most famous member of the staff of the notorious Harvard comic, has broken all relations with the Republican Club of Harvard, for which he paraded in the G. O. P. torchlight parade on Thursday night. Both Bob and his celebrated piccolo will appear under the unique standard of the Nihilist nominee...
Perhaps the reason Mr. Davis has failed to reunite the factions of his party is the negative leadership he has manifested. As a prophet of destruction Pisarev himself was hardly more of a Nihilist. Hour upon hour Mr. Davis has hurled his denunciations against the Coolidge administration, and patiently his hearers have waited for his constructive program. But when it came, it was so disproportionately underemphasized that many have left his meetings quite bewildered. Though in no doubt whatever of what Mr. Davis doesn't stand for, they are much perplexed to discover what he does stand...
...extreme dislike for the church from earliest childhood. His mother had him baptized secretly. He became one of the leading literary men of Italy because of his brilliant attacks on even such philosophical systems as Haeckel or Nietzsche could construct. He was known as an atheist, an anarchist, a nihilist. Then financial troubles drove him to leave his native Florence and live within the confines of a poor little mountain village. Here he became acquainted with the lowly, the humble and those that labor and are heavy laden. Here he opened the four gospels, and with these and the help...