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...humanitarian work carried on among us by the American Red Cross and so worthily directed by you has earned the acclaim of the entire Italian nation. In succoring the wounded at our front and in mitigating the sufferings of citizens driven from their homes by the enemy's invasion the American Red Cross has earned everlasting gratitude and has strengthened still more the solid basis of the trusting and cordial friendship between the two countries...
...earn what she gets. To argue that we must not hate because hatred will delay pepace or interfere with the beating of 75's into plough-shares when the war is over is to argue for exactly the sort of official, manufactured, governmental conscience that made the German people acclaim the rape of Belgium and the sinking of the Lusitania...
...closing, Mr. McCall said that he believed that Harvard through its scholars had sent forth the most potent single force in the country. This quiet presentation of academic distinctions, he said, is far better than the acclaim of forty thousand people in the Stadium. There is soon to be a reaction in the world, and it will become popular to be a scholar. And this is right, for nothing in the world is more useful to one's country than scholarship...