Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have it divorced from the ordinary interests of life. In the olden days of absolute rule, it was unnecessary to have scholarship extend beyond the throne or the monasteries. But if the government is controlled by the many, it is important that scholarship, knowledge and the ability to think straight should be widely disseminated throughout the entire people...
...Someone has told me that Harvard audiences have the reputation of being rather cold and indifferent, but I certainly do not think that they meant this description, because I couldn't have found even in my own part of the country, more kindly reception than was extend to me last evening. So I am mighty glad I came to Harvard, and now I can tell our people in the South that you know what hospitality means...
...looking for romance or for experience: they had no illusions about war. With sober thoughtfulness they faced the fact of a ruthless tyrant in Europe who threatened death to great living principles, and they decided that their duty lay with the Battery in France. We are staggered to think that they are dead...
Very few of us ever stop to think how much we owe to that courageous young minister, who, in 1638, left his library and half his estate to the struggling college at Newtowne. In gratitude the General Court changed the town's name to Cambridge, the university which John Harvard left in order to come to this country. Without his aid it would never have attained its early reputation--it might even have been abandoned. And, in partial recognition of our enormous debt to him, the least that we can do is to attend the exercises this morning...
...live at the best period of our lives in the most comfortable circumstances, and at a time when the rest of the world is suffering all the horrors of war. When we think of Belgium bleeding, Poland starving and Servia smitten by fever, does it seem a great sacrifice to spend a dollar to help a little in the Red Cross work of mercy...