Word: partisanship
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...attention has been brought to an article on the Boston Police Strike by one Arthur Warner, which appeared in "The Nation" during the recent Christmas recess. Says Mr. Warner: "I found that partisanship and rancor had permeated almost every circle, even to Harvard University, the president of which had offered one thousand students (who fortunately never appeared) to take the places of absent police, while one of the lecturers had addressed a gathering of policemen's wives so sympathetically that a number of graduates were demanding, under pain of not contributing to the endowment fund, that his mouth be stopped...
Secondly, political partisanship. This causes a prejudiced interpretation of every sentence of the Covenant, and an exaggeration of its shortcomings...
...also glad that the "Legion" is to be non-partisan. Without the least bit of partisanship, but with purely American principles, we can find plenty to think about and plenty to do. It is our duty to lend our support and our influence to purely American ideals. I do not mean that I think America's fighting men to be reactionary in their policies. They are not. But I do believe they are the sort that will oppose certain agitators who uphold doctrines which in other countries resulted in revolution,--doctrines which oppose the system of government under which...
With the hope that the clouds of partisanship, so effectively obfuscating the merits of the new Harvard Magazine, have rolled away, the writer takes the liberty of attempting an objective criticism of the new publication and its apparent purposes...
...them have been due to partisan causes. But the bulk of the testimony points to an honest endeavor at a fair administration. Appointments of men of the opposite party may be a spectacular appeal to the electorate. Fairmindedness, however, demands recognition for a policy which lays partisanship aside and which substitutes a real consideration for the needs and obligations of the time. Let us hope that the appointment of so able a man as Mr. Hughes will be but the forerunner of official recognition of many other national leaders who heretofore have remained in civil life...