Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Recognition by colleges of lawn tennis as a major sport is a matter which I have very much at heart. The U. S. N. L. T. A. is anxious to do everything possible to accomplish this. You can therefore rely on whole-hearted assistance from us. I want nothing more than to have you send me the article which you speak of on this subject, and we will publish it in 'American Lawn Tennis' thus starting a vigorous campaign along these lines. I believe that in this way something worth while can be accomplished. Similar efforts are being made...
...after all, the Jenkins affair is only one of a long series of intolerable situations. The Mexican government has proved conclusively that it does not want or has not the power to keep order. Discounting the "shady" activities of American capitalists, discounting the exaggerated rumors of border outrages, the people of the United States have strong grounds for exasperation. Mexico is a thorn a their side seemingly impossible to extract...
...this wasn't satisfactory. We come to the indoor novel again. The modern man doesn't want a book where the people are sure to be married; he wants a story where the people can't get married because they're married already. His story always begins in cabaret where 'The Man' meets the 'Wife of the Other Man' what a fascination those words have for him! The point of the modern novel is to get these two into some delicate position, we used to call it indelicate. The proper situation is this: The Man must walk by accident...
...time of national stress, such as the present, the more subjects of importance that are kept before the public eye the more likely we are to reach an ultimately correct and satisfactory conclusion. How do those who want to exclude a given theory from university teaching know that it is false? They cannot be sure of that until it is thoroughly investigated, and there can be no more fitting place for such investigation than the universities...
Persecution for the expression of opinions seems to me perfectly logical. If you have no doubt of your premises or your power and want a certain result with all your heart you naturally express your wishes in law and sweep away all opposition. To allow opposition by speech seems to indicate that you think the speech impotent, as when a man says that he has squared the circle, or that you do not care whole-heartedly for the result, or that you doubt either your power or your premises. But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting...