Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recalled that Harvard had helped to make such men as Emerson, William Ellery Channing, Wendell Phillips and other lovers of liberty and champions of freedom. After all, Harvard is the most liberal of all the colleges in this country and it was precisely this spirit, this inquiring for the truth with the ideals and convictions that inevitably followed, which when acted upon, really made for that part of our social progress for which Harvard men are, in part, responsible. Shall we now forsake that attitude of mind which has given this university its precious heritage? It is unthinkable...
...written rule that the wicked flee when no man pursueth, and however limited or absolute that truth may be, it suggests another, to the effect that trusting to human nature when there are no patrolmen does not pay in our stage of civilization. So in regard for such an axiom the New Jersey Legislature after 12 years of agitation has passed a bill establishing a state constabulary. Such a bill provides for a state police force of two troops of 65 men each, the officers to be men who have served in the United States army with at least...
...hold that the people of Ireland have made a prima facie case for recognition as an independent state, but we are inviting opinion to the contrary as we are deeply interested that the whole truth of the case be known to all. Among the speakers will be Professor Holcombe and Professor Rocking, who doubtless will make a searching analysis of the case. Members of the University who have anything to contribute to a proper understanding of this problem are welcome to speak from the floor...
...decide what it is to become. For the improvement of human society is something to be directed from one center and attained by the accomplishment of one program; it comes because of consist ant and pr evasive working of men and women, wherever they may be to find the truth and to clear away error...
Greece, who is now dealing with affairs in Turkey, is much too weak for the task. This Mr. Morganthau represented to Mr. Venizelos at the Peace Conference in 1919, but that statesman whom the speaker characterized as one of the greatest men of the age, while admitting the truth of Mr. Morgenthau's assertion, said that to withdraw the Greek troops from Asia Minor would be fatal to his ministry. Mr. Venizelos' ministry has fallen, and the Greek troops remain in Turkey, but they are accomplishing nothing...