Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outside world the trend of opinion in a large academic community should have a peculiar merit. Nowhere is sound information on political questions more readily obtainable, nowhere does freedom of thought meet more encouragement, nowhere are limited interests less active than in a university like Harvard...
Possibly certain earnest souls who take their politics as seriously as they do their humor will regret this lack of respect, will lament the thought that "the automobile and frigidaire companies dicate American politics, no matter who takes the trout-fishing trips." But on the other hand there is a certain admirable insouciance in the attitude, not wholly unrelated to that of Nero's fiddle-act, nor to the carefree independence of the man who fell asleep during Smith's inaugural address. And it will be a crusty gentleman indeed who cannot smile at the "Whispering Campaign" or "The Little...
...Harvard Thomas-for-President Club heartily deplores and condemns the prevalent un-American tendency to brand all new doctrines seditions and to brand as traitors all leaders of new thought. Among institutions which existed for many years were chattel slavery, feudalism, and Tsarist regime in Russia, among the advocates of new political systems have been Jesus Christ, Washington and Lincoln. His fellow citizens demand to know how Benjamin Gitlow has merited jail, and why he has been held incommunicando...
...very much surprised, and not at all pleased to discover that my signature had been forged to one of the lists and I thought you might be interested enough to start a thorough investigation of such terrible goings on. There is nothing, I should like to see in your little paper more than a tally of the genuine signatures and those creations of an imaginative Republican with somewhat criminal tendencies...
...mountain meadow at Elizabethton and, in the fourth main speech of his campaign proper, addressed the whole South. He implied that he was neither an orator nor a humorist nor particularly a politician. He spoke as a Westerner, as a member of an administration whose record he thought was good, as a champion of the Home, as one who wants to "abolish poverty...