Word: temperance
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current, New Republic invests Boston with a purpose, namely, the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. It attributes this purpose to what it, editorially, takes to be the real Boston, an "ethnic minority" conscious that the prisoners are communists and foreigners. It contrasts this state of things with the political temper of Chicago where it finds, an agglomerate ethnic majority, conscious that another and more aristocratic portion of the city is Anglo-Saxon and descend from grandparents native born, has just elected as mayor, one who jollied and humored them...
...only is it to be deplored from that point of view, however, but the habit is an annoying one to the student body itself. The danger of an artificial rain shower is one which evokes signs of temper rather than of risibility. As humor it dates from the Mesozoic era, or at best from the Post-Pliocene. Although we approve of the antiquarian interest displayed, we hardly feel that the average passerby appreciates it. --Columbia Spectator...
...advantages of such a method of selection are apparent. In the past it has been the general custom to have the rival coaches select their own officials, thus indirectly, and sometimes directly, exerting an influence upon the temper of the official's judgment. The small college has often maintained that it was the victim of unfair decisions solely because the official was dependent upon the larger university for continued employment. Under the proposed plan, the criticism will be impossible, for it will provide a background which will be entirely free from favoritism--Cornell Daily...
Another situation included in the subject is the subtler, if somewhat less pressing, problem in the Philippine Islands, where some day, according to terrorists, expanding Japan will come to grips with America, unless, the latter withdraws. All this without taking into account the temper of the natives themselves, who have evinced an understandable desire for self-government...
Ordinarily, such a failure is impossible. Our temper as a people is just. Our courts are prevailingly just. They are not unduly friendly to any class; they are not negligent of the interests of the poor. It is, only a remarkable grouping of special psychological conditions that brings about this miscarriage. The trial was begun in an atmosphere of fear and hatred toward men of radical opinions, anarchists, communists, pacifists. The land was to be purged of such poison by fair means or foul: "away with such fellows from the earth". That panic, with its follies and wrongs, has largely...