Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...concession, will Mr. Hughes regard that as a right forever bound up with the honor of the United States?" What America wants is not the mere reiteration from Mr. Hughes that he will protects "rights"--but the statement of a policy. Does the fact that Mexico is struggling for self-government and freedom from capitalistic and aristocratic oppression, convey anything to him? Does he see in the Monroe Doctrine any responsibility of America to encourage just government and freedom in Latin American nations...
...something that no Republican (or Democratic) administration would have considered right in times of general peace, but--and here is the difference--in critical times of war, no Republican administration would have dreamed of delaying it and decrying it for two years, at the cost of self-respect and the nation's respect. While, therefore, there exists a danger of retaining in power a party with this record of error and liable to this kind of error, the Preparedness issue can hardly be called definitely settled...
...apparently better preserved and more revered in the West than in Greater Boston; we think of Massachusetts political questions in the light of Massachusetts history and of the great part which this Commonwealth has played and still ought to play in the affairs of the country. And we are self-supporting. We are not paupers; we do not call on state or city for our support or education. In fact we do not call on the hard-worked soil of Massachusetts for our subsistence; we bring into the state money which enables many voters of Cambridge to be technically "self...
...point on which as thinking and loyal citizens we can enthusiastically unite. It is in an attempt to secure the privilege for ourselves and future generations of college students of voting in presidential elections, without regard to the invidious question of whether or not we are entirely self-supporting, as the Massachusetts law, as it is applied at present, requires. Although most of us are inclined to concur in the reply which one of the Harvard men involved in last spring's election "frauds" is said to have made to the court's query as to his earning capacity...
...Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something because he cannot hold it back--because he has something to say. And at the end of his bold plea for individuality and self-reliance there comes to the reader a sense of satisfaction--dispersal of a doubt, vindication of faith, or what you will--that is seldom found in modern poetry of any sort. But Mr. Murray is the least skilled of the Monthly's versifiers. Only the persistent reader succeeds in ploughing through...