Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courts. Last fall the Carnegie foundation issued a document called "Justice and the Poor" which shows how easy it is for a man to become an anarchist whom the New York Municipal Court has refused to aid in collecting a $6.60 bill because he did not possess the necessary ten dollar fee; or again, how brief is the passage on the part of our immigrants from bitter disillusionment in our machinery of justice to sedition and disorder...
Another awful thought. Suppose that some fortunate Colgate alumni possess girths of less than the 30-inch norm. Will the Committee feel itself bound to reimburse such men for their shortcomings at the rate of $5 for each inch of deficiency? We hardly think so. If they did, we might see an alarming increase in the number of Colgate alumni to be found among the Living Skeletons and the Human Matchsticks at the circus. Colgate may need the money; but a surtax on waistlines is a dangerous way to raise...
...lesson of the Mexican officer's remark is a valuable one. There is hardly a greater virtue than obstinacy, if obstinacy is construed as refusal to recognize apparent defeat and turn it to personal advantage. The nations that today possess the soundest traditions of orderly government are the ones that have sacrificed most for it in the past. Their history is filled with the record of lost causes, which have in the end been victorious. It is difficult to predict the exact outcome of the present Mexican revolution. Just now it seems likely that a new government may be established...
...live today, and there are countless of us whom you will not know, who are glad, intensely glad that you live; glad of the power which you possess; deeply heartened to have you do what our souls would have us do. As I listened to you at the Harvard Union, above all I felt your living faith in your message. I am writing you because I believe that the hardest thing which our generation must bear is the mocking, bitter fact that human nature is utterly unable to comprehend that which is distant from it, or is inevitably forgetful...
...bond between the English-speaking peoples is to be a living one it must be cemented by living men; men who will possess qualities of real leadership as well as of mere intellectual distinction; men who will make their brains serve others as well as themselves. Harvard men of this type should take advantage of an opportunity which but few are privileged to enjoy...