Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hillaire Belloc, probably the greatest authority on military history in England; Professor Charles Seymour of Yale University, one of the foremost historians of the U. S., H. Pirie Gordon, Foreign Editor of The Times, London; Sir James Ren-nell Rodd, British diplomat of great experience; Andre Tardieu, French statesman of acknowledged gifts...
William R. Castle Jr. '00, author statesman and a former assistant dean of Harvard College, will hold conferences for vocational guidance on Thursday, February 21st, from 3.30 to 5.30 o'clock at the Union, it was announced yesterday. Appointments may be made now at the office of the Committee on the Choice of Vocations at 3 University Hall...
...Manning, Bishop of New York, powerful Conservative leader in the Episcopal Church, announced he would speak last Sunday morning in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Thousands came. As they sang Onward, Christian Soldiers, he ascended the pulpit. After the hymn the Bishop prayed for the dying statesman. After the prayer, he began to deliver in carefully enunciated syllables the sermon which, probably more than any other, will determine his place as a churchman...
Never was there a scholar who was less of a pedant, or a statesman who was more impatient with empty forms and artificial contrivances and more anxious to lay hold of living realities. The League of Nations was to him not so much an international covenant as a process of international co-operation. His unyielding stand against modifying or attaching reservations to the covenant of the League was based, we may reasonably suppose, upon his conviction that the avowed enemies of some of the clauses of the covenant were really seeking to find a way to attack the life...
...purposes of any war, except in so far as the purposes of the men who are shaping its course and who are waging it are high. And so again, until people think a peaceful world is possible, there will be no lasting peace. The task of the statesman, then, is one of moral leadership. He can build a better State only in so far as be can change the attitude and purposes...