Word: panacea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after the University ballot on the Bok Peace Plan, J. P. Hubbard '26, chairman of the Harvard committee, mailed return postal cards to all those undergraduates who had registered their approval of Dr. Levermore's $50,000 peace panacea. These cards explained briefly the objects of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association and solicited in the first place membership and in the second place active work for the association. Naturally many of these cards were ignored, but 241 men signed up for membership and approximately 75 expressed their interest in doing active work...
...that Labor is the sole cause of value. He shows that value is fixed by "demand and the limitation of supply, or, in other words, demand and a certain difficulty of attainment." He goes on to say that on demand, and not on limited supply, can be found the panacea for which the laboring classes search. The significance of this is apparent, and Mr. Strachey brings it out in discussing Labor as a partner of industry; for, as demand is the raison d'être of wealth derived through the medium of Labor, it should govern Labor...
...well handled, however, it should accomplish its purpose. It is not a panacea for all the ills of dullness and drudgery. It is more of a tonic to stimulate thought and the growth of new ideas...
...nature of the present Parliament foreordains a protracted period of political unrest until another general election comes to act as a panacea...
...idea of a panacea for things culminates in Shaw's ideas of marriage as shown in "Man and Superman". Here we have the highly intelligent woman who seeks and-finds the man most suited to be her husband. Every person was to select the right mate and in this way society's ills would be cured. Plato proposed that the upper class should rule and that this class should be encouraged to have many children, and thus to raise the standard of the race. That is Shaw's idea. He wants the world to be placed on the plane...