Word: reasonable
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trouble with most of our ideals is, that they are absorbed, not thought out. Our politics, our religion, are imbibed rather than constructed. How many men who voted in the straw ballot, how many who will march in the Hughes parade tonight, base their acts on solid reasoning and conviction? The only reason why free-thinkers are persecuted is that the majority of people do not take time to think. They blindly follow the conservatism of the last decade, finding it easier to submit than to investigate...
...Horween '18 was not in uniform, owing to a rather severe bruise which he got in the Cornell game, and G. C. Caner '17 was also absent for the same reason. Both of these men will be able to resume play in a few days. Captain Dadmun and W. F. Robinson '18 were unable to report today...
...planned action. Should the officers of the political clubs in the University draw up a petition clearly defining the position and constitutional rights of undergraduate voters, and place it before the state legislature, some definite action might result. The fact that a large number of intelligent voters are without reason deprived of the most important right of citizenship under the present laws is a disgrace to the democratic ideals of the country...
...graduate editors are the chief objectors to the suggested plan. When some of them were in College, there was a reason for two magazines and such men have the old days in mind. Others oppose on sentimental grounds. Their influence with the boards is great, for to some extent they subsidize both papers. This last fact is one of the best arguments for the change. With a clear field, one magazine could doubtless stand alone...
Your anonunced invitation of communications upon the issue of the coming national election is welcomed by me because of the relation which I perceive between that issue and the inner life of Harvard, fully as much as by reason of the national question itself, which, after all, will be settled pragmatically with very little reference to our sentiments...