Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most delightful places on the Continent and in America, associates with the most agreeable acquaintances, companions, and friends, . . and dies. And the reader, not the author, closes the book with the conviction that for Cerise D'Atree, and perhaps for all others, life is a futile and desperate thing painful to leave, but terrible to endure, and therefore best to leave...
...perhaps the most remarkable thing was the first reaction of the world toward the Russian revolution. Nations which had been themselves born by revolution--which had been taught of and had thoroughly believed in the despotism and injustice of the Empire--did not hesitate to condemn the Revolutionists. After all, an empire was a perfectly orthodox and respectable form of government,, whether it was well-administrated or not. And this Red thing was new--sufficient condemnation alone. Fortunately, most nations have calmed their early fears, and as the Russian experiment has become more explicable. Europe has grown more tolerant. America...
...right, a students' publication, "The New Oxford", was suppressed on account of remarks that it contained. Nothing of the kind has, I believe, occurred here within the memory of man. During the war you lost your fellowship at Cambridge on account of your opinions. No such thing happened at Harvard. Throughout the war we kept and protected a German subject in our instructing staff. In spite of outcries for their dismissal, from alumni and others. Professor Munsterberg and Mr. Lashi were unflinchingly maintained in their positions. Throughout all trials Harvard has stood, and will stand, for the fullest academic freedom...
...most delightful places on the Continent and in America, associates with the most agreeable acquaintances, companions, and friends . . . and dies. And the reader, not the author, closes the book with the conviction that for Cerise D'Atree, and perhaps for all others, life is a futile and desperate thing painful to leave, but terrible to endure, and therefore best to leave...
...long been delayed, by the self-isolation and intense concentration of scientists--absolutely necessary, however, for their work,--by the tremendous difficulties due to the complexities of the situation, by that curious but not by any means unnatural homocentric impulse which makes man consider himself a thing apart from Nature and inexplicable according to her laws. But the time has obviously arrived when the success of human endeavor in investigating and subsequently in exploiting material forces must be balanced by equal success in exploring and controlling human forces. And the methods which have brought about the present crisis, because...