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There are also men who consider that politics in the United States is, far too low and sordid an occupation for men of their noble and refined characters. This attitude is stupid and cowardly; cowardly because if the conditions were as they imagine them to be it would be "The Right to Fight", and finally his latest work, "Everybody's World". These books deal with conditions in the Far and Near East and show also America's relation to the problems of the world...
...Illinois. Yet still there is no occasion for the attitude pharisaical. No one can be quite sure what would have happened if professional football had flourished among the cities of the seaboard, rousing instincts of civic pride and personal gain. Nor have the temptations of the Middle West been sordid merely. There is that matter of stadiums. No college which is truly up and doing can be quite satisfied with the athletic glory that was Greece until it is appropriately encompassed by the architectural grandeur that was Rome. And how is the drive for funds to prosper unless the driver...
...President's fine words of introduction were not bombast--their sincerity is more than proved by what the United States offers. His speech epitomizes what everyone would like to feel about America, but what we have been recently led to doubt. "We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect no enemy; we contemplate or apprehend no conquest. We only wish to do with you that fine, nobler thing which no nation can do alone". The altruism of America is unquestionable...
...called the World. It is rather the ability to understand the world and all a place in it, yet to rise above that place with aspirations for something better than the world already has. It is appreciation of what is fine without letting it be obscured by the sordid. It is not more training, but inspiration. These qualities are the attributes of intellect, and they lead to progress. They are to be attained only by that form of mental activity known as scholarship; and we believe that it is the sort of scholarship for which Harvard trains--a scholarship...
...Therein lies the fallacy of trying to censor the play after it is finished. Particularly objectionable parts are, indeed, removed and the piece rewritten and patched up; but the scissors cannot eliminate that much more subtle and deadly, influence of "atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere". Yet unhealthy atmosphere, such as sordid or criminal backgrounds, scenes of "night life", etc., is what the new regulation particularly aims at removing...