Word: upholds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those five thousand white men did not administer death according to the law. They seized the negro from a willing sheriff's posse, which was sworn by all honor to uphold the law. They hold him awaiting the final torture, while excursion trains ran from the city, while business houses shut down as for a holiday, while pleasure-seekers came by motor from the whole country-side to witness this festival. This festival of debauchery...
...nation has been called up on to express itself in action. If they were merely disloyal to their nation in being loyal to the whole of humanity, they would be justified. (?) But . . . they are failing to serve to their utmost ability that greater cause which they have undertaken to uphold. They are failing both the nation and the race. Let them stop to take thought, lest unwittingly they be doubly disloyal...
Such is Harvard's record in the past, a record full of courage and bravery. The students and alumni have well borne their part and done what they could to uphold the honor of their country. And now in this present crisis, as always, the men of Harvard will do what they can to defend their flag upon the battlefield or on the seas...
That the Harvard Club of Boston pledges its steadfast and loyal support to the President of the United States of America in his leadership of the people to assert their rights on land and sea, and to uphold national honor and international justice...
...service in defence of the great American ideal of democracy." It is in this class that the Harvard Surgical units really belong. We may well agree with Dr. Cabot when he says that "it is peculiarly appropriate that Harvard, founded under the ideals of Anglo-Saxon civilization, founded to uphold the cause of liberty and freedom, should have been, more than any other American university, concerned in this work...