Word: objectore
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...Indeed, the objector may speak more bluntly and declare that the judges are simply partisans of certain economic interests and that their use of the jargon of precedent and theory is so much camouflage in the shadow of which matters of choice take on the delusive appearance of inevitability. No student would care to deny the force of these views...
...seems to have been generally forgotten that our new Attorney-General of the United Sates, Harlan F. Stone, served during the war on the Board of Inquiry that appraised the sincerity of conscientious objectors. The following description of Attorney-General Stone by one of the men he examined is quoted in "The Conscientious Objector in America" by Norman Thomas (Huebsch...
...event of another war, it would be pertinent to inquire what the word "pacifist" means today when there is no war in sight. Even in time of war there seem to be some fine distinctions to be observed ir, making such a definition. Mr. Norman Thomas's "The Conscientious Objector in America" is a book that is helping intelligent people to understand the type of mind that refuses to accept war as a necessity. It is rather strikingly dedicated to "The Brave, who went for Conscience's Sake to Trench or to Prison...
AREN'T WE ALL??Cyril Maude as an amiable objector to marriage and other semi-sacred institutions of Society...
...startling thesis. truly. Yet Miss Glaspell wisely refrains from urging it to an extreme. She is satisfied with pointing out the justice of her case, admitting frankly that our present social and educational conditions cannot be stretched overnight to conform to all this. The conscientious objector, the "radical" professor--these our hard-headed, "sot-in-its-ways" democracy cannot at once accept into its colleges. There must be time for growth and advancement; but meanwhile it does no harm to learn our meanwhile it does no harm to learn our faults. After all, it is the old story of revolution...