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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...President Lowell in answer to Senator Borah's attack on him of his lack of reverence for Washington's last official words, are irrefutable. Looking the facts in the face is what the whole world must do unless it desires to slip back into the dark ages. Although the present is built on doctrines and theories of the past, many of the latter are obsolete now. The whole organization of society has changed. New means of transportation has greatly decreased, whether we willed it or not, that isolation of this nation which Washington urged. By our entrance into the World...
...yield neither to Senator Borah nor any other man in admiration of the farewell address and of the great Fathers of the Republic, but I would not use them as a cover for present party politics. Never did I sneer at the farewell address; but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness...
...first meeting was well attended, 24 members out of 32 being present. Most of the Overseers later went to the dinner given by the Boston Committee of the Harvard Endowment Fund at the Harvard Club in Boston...
...consider the League of Nations at present is entirely useless. The great Powers have simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves. England and France in particular have got out of the treaty everything that they wanted, and the League, of Nations can do nothing to alter any of the unjust clause of the treaty except by unanimous consent of the members of the league, and the great Powers will never give their consent to changes in the interests of weaker peoples...
...Phillips Brooks House Association has maintained for fifteen years a leading role in the interests of Harvard men. For years previous to that its various fields of activity were attended to by one management or another; and these branches have increased ten-fold under the present organization...