Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister for many years; not as Chancellor of the Exchequer, associated with policies that make history; not as Minister of Munitions or as Prime Minister of England?one of the greatest titles ever known to history?during the conduct of that stupendous war. We welcome you not as a statesman of national and international and permanent achievement and fame. We honor those things, we applaud those things; but we welcome to Bohemia and to the Lotos, David Lloyd George, human being...
...proffered land, which was stated to be the finest site in Tokyo for an embassy, was once the property of the late Prince Ito, an Elder Statesman, to whom it had been presented for life by the Mikado...
...upon his own genius. Today British and American body politics are apt to fight shy of the genius and select a leader more nearly representative. To enslave that leader in a mass of details which will possibly cause an untimely death is hardly consistent with humanity. Nor can every statesman have the vigour and vitality of Roosevelt and Lloyd George...
...many duties only for a short morning walk. The simple truth seems to be that an administrative organization designed to direct the government of two million people now directs, without any change of design, the government of a population fifty times this size. The death of this great British statesman may serve to point a lesson not only to his own people but to those of a sister nation...
President Lowell accepted the gift on behalf of the college and spoke of Roosevelt as the "greatest Harvard graduate of his generation". Professor A. B. Hart '80, a former classmate of the statesman and Chairman of the Committee, was the presiding officer through- the ceremonies...