Word: saneness
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...must consider himself a medium of knowledge to his students--never a propagandist--and, as such, much present all significant conceptions to his classes. In this way, and in this way only, can they do their part,--and a particularly important part it is, in building a safe and sane democracy and in stabilizing and perpetuating the abiding principles of free government...
Examples might be multiplied, and one of them would be this number of the Advocate. Its editorials also have a wider range than the College Yard. The best of them on Labor in Politics is a good piece of sane and careful thought; the paragraphs on political ferment at Harvard and on prohibition are more in the manner of the Transcript's frequent badinage. The conservatives may read with misgivings the plea for liberalizing our curriculum still further through introducing a course on Hamlet by Forbes Robertson, with histrionic demonstrations of the lectures; but it must be remembered that Columbia...
Professor Lord's long study of Russia, and his experience in that country and at the Peace Conference, make him particularly able to treat this subject in a sane, non partisan way. He is offering to undergraduates the opportunity to find out what lies back of Bolshevism. It is a university's place to stabilize thought on the great issues of the day as well as those of the past, and Professor Lord is helping Harvard to face the present issue with intelligent scientific methods...
...friends, the radicals, are organized and working to the best of their ability; the only sane thing to be done, then, is for the rest of us--stodgy old fools--who still cling to the belief that before you tear down you must be ready to build up once more--to organize as well, and thereby set a few back-fires...
...Sane, constructive and without political bias is the President's message to Congress. Its clear, common-sense views on the conditions of the country should convince the gossip-mongers that Woodrow Wilson is far from being a back number...