Word: weltered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boston's political welter recalls a need often felt and much deplored, but little heeded. It is the lack of intelligent, well-educated men to take an active part in government; the lack even of intelligent voters who understand the practical workings of civil machinery. The University is a valuable training-ground for such men; those concentrating in Government and Economics are well prepared to lay their hands to the reins of office. But the large number specializing in other fields are often left totally unenlightened on such subjects. Good citizenship should be inculcated in every college man; for without...
...this welter of confusion there is one foundation upon which to build. England, who up to this time has favored leniency, has now informed France that she will accede to any course which the latter may propose. With the two chiefly concerned nations in agreement, some remedy for the situation may soon be found. Such a result is to be hoped for. If Germany could be made to see that her present tactics are futile, she might finally settle down to a steadier level of action, and become a reductive agent in the markets of the world. But further procrastination...
...Senator Harding, far from being opposed to any league, has declared himself as ready to enter the community of nations provided the individuality of the United States is not to be submerged in the welter of conflicting ambitions and prejudices which the League, without modifications, bids fair to become. To the internationalist, to the idealist, this view may seem so lukewarm as to be palatable, so cautious as to be ridiculous...
...CRIMSON a few days ago surmised would happen a "comparatively unheralded candidate" emerged victorious from the welter of the convention. In retrospect it is easy to see how carefully the "coup" was planned, how the popular favorites were played off against each other to the point of exhaustion, how the well-coached dark horse was jockeyed into position in the intermediate ballots, and how he broke away for an overwhelming victory at the finish. The results of the convention reveal not only the inefficiency of the popular primaries, but also the total inefficiency of popular sentiment in affecting...
...these days of constantly shifting opinion, when the one thing our statesmen, politicians, and publicists seem certain of is that they cannot tell what the morrow will bring forth when we turn in vain to our journals of considered comment for any solution of the welter about us, it is with something of relief that we pick up a magazine which may be fairly taken to represent the opinions of such a body of citizens as the graduates of Harvard University. Surely here, if anywhere, we may expect to find sanity and an enlightened conservatism. And we are not disappointed...