Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poll of Harvard's 48,000 alumni on what they believe would be the most suitable war memorial for the University will be made, according to a statement issued last night by a committee of Harvard Alumni...
...This statement is a little surprising from as liberal a theologian as Dean Sperry, who elsewhere decries compulsory chapel and the "religious hangover" found in some ecclesiastical colleges. It would be folly to deny the absence among college undergraduates of any very real religious certitude, of the variety dealt out by pious Sunday School teachers: it is, however, not to be assumed at once that students flock unthinking after the frequently flickering electric torch of Science. Theories are born, have their being, and die in rapid tempo: the ideas set down as dogmas in a scientific textbook "brought...
...harder to put the "Big Navy" plan before the country in a peaceful light than the man who had to explain it to Congress, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, Chief of Operations. To be on the safe side, he stuck as close as possible, almost word for word, to the statement of his predecessor, Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, whose estimates of the year before had been revised only slightly since the Geneva Conference. It was characteristic of Admiral Hughes that he did not think to emphasize that point, to silence talk of "competition," that, when the Committee quizzed...
Ensued, last week, furious dissensions among Indian politicians as to whether this offer should be accepted. Significant loomed a recent statement by the great Indian barrister Pundit Molital Nehru, executive leader of the Swaraj (NonCooperation Party). Wrote he: "I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains to bind me. In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge the chains...
...James Thomas, Detroit Methodist Episcopal minister, had a very pithy statement ready: "In this case I should say, the thought to be applied is, that the Lord gave it, though the devil brought it, so the league should keep...