Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...still a member of the "Yale Board of Control" in athletics, has resigned the chairmanship. To say that he has had the confidence of every Harvard man who has worked with him is much; but not enough. In his openness and generosity he has perfectly illustrated Mr. Roosevelt's remark that Yale and Harvard are "natural adversaries and therefore natural friends." The duty of association with Professor Corwin of Yale and with Dean McClenahan of Princeton has brought to Harvard chairmen constant pleasure and constant examples of good academic sportsmanship...
Nothing more incongruous surely would be involved than the turning of a Soldier's Memorial Hall, built in church from, into a restaurant and a theatre, a fact which only visitors to Cambridge ever remark on. Technical difficulties connected with the endowment there may be; but nothing that so faithfully and ardently serves art and humanity as does the 47 Workshop can for a moment be held to twist the literal significance or to thwart the fundamental purpose of a museum. W. C. HOLBROOK...
...Much of the talk which we hear and of the writings we read in regard to reconstruction is vague, and it is worthy of remark that the fundamental question is so seldom or so lightly referred to. By the shock of war our Government was obliged to confer under the war powers of the Constitution enormous authority upon the Executive, and thereby put the operation of the Government into an abnormal condition...
...isolation or self-sacrifice to this life. We are having excellent times, and are quite as comfortable as we would be in America. I cannot praise the personnel too highly; it was very gratifying to find the American community so congenial. It will not be out of place to remark that I haven't found a single person who has come from sentimental reasons. This college at least is completely free from "missionary zeal...