Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straton were to show logically why monogamy is preferable to a system of plural marriages, or for what reasons he has adopted his conception of God, there could be no quarrel with his methods. The mistakes of rational beings must be attacked with reason, not with dogmatism. The conviction grows that a religious attitude that stubbornly refuses to face the facts of a new social order can hope for few converts in an age of scientific progress. The present generation is no whit less interested in religion than the age of Calvin, but it cannot countenance a religious attitude which...
...famous quarrel with Henley, his early friend and supporter, Mr. Steuart treats at length. It was not, as generally supposed, a sudden thing, but the result of a succession of minor episodes. And it was, it appears, largely the fault of Stevenson, whose hot rage would never forgive a fancied disloyalty. Henley himself never harbored resentment, in spite of his disparaging criticism of his former friend, often regarded as evidence of a vengeful nature...
...book, U. S. newspaper readers reflected that, of all journalists at the Peace Conference, whilom Editor Steed was probably as near the inner machinery as any; that of all temperaments assembled at Versailles, those of Lloyd George and "Tiger" Clemenceau were perhaps the fieriest; that if such a quarrel had come to pass, it must certainly have been hushed up; that of all reputations, Mr. Steed's was a most excellent one for veracity; that, of all times, the present ? with Wilson dead, Lloyd George obscured, Clemenceau retired? was as convenient as any for publishing the anecdote...
...logical that students be brought into contact with the doctrines of the Legion and the Federation and with all doctrines. As long as organizations restrain themselves to the presentation of their programs simply as evidence in an undecided case, there can be no quarrel with their function. Unfortunately, organized bodies are possessed of no such altruism. Their chief interest seems to lie not in teaching students to think clearly but in teaching them to think as the organizations themselves think. Progress can never come if the force of young minds is consistently turned into certain preconceived channels. The Public School...
...main quarrel with Fundamentalism is its lack of faith in Man" was the heading which the Reverend Charles Francis Potter, pastor of the West Side Unitarian Church in New York City, summed up his Modernistic views at an address in Phillips Brooks House last night, held under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Association...