Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have had enough parades; we have had enough mass meetings, lectures and exhortations. We have talked enough. We have hesitated and delayed too long. Action, and action alone, can be tolerated now. Only 600 men in Harvard University have thus far roused themselves from their comfortable state of lethargy and responded to the first patriotic call of their lifetime...
...unit have done all they can do now. What about those who have delayed? Ordinary peace-time excuses are no longer excuses. They are merely evidences of despicable indifference to the highest duties that American citizens ought to be proud of fulfilling. The need of the hour is for action, action, action...
Even now, when this nation and Germany are in a position so unhappy and so perilous, the tribute of men of action to a man of action should not pass unmarked. We pride ourselves that we are a nation of sportsmen. It was the sportsmanlike thing that these commanders did America has no quarrel with amicable guests beneath the shelter of her flag...
This evening Captain Ian Hay Beith will speak in the Union. It is not often that we can hear a man of action speak in words that give vitality to his acts. The present war is one of the great things which the world has suffered in its history. A man who has lived so intensely as has Captain Beith speaks with a deeper knowledge, coming from unsurpassed experience, of the motives which impel nations when they...
Technical obstacles have been swept aside and the establishment at Harvard of a fully recognized officers' training corps has been assured. It was not alone the emergency of the hour, revealing the nation's need in more way than one, which justified this commendable action. The students themselves had more than demonstrated their fitness for such recognition. No more striking evidences of the resolute service which college men are ready to give, and of the patriotism they feel, has ever been offered in time of peace than the organization and faithful drill of the Harvard Regiment surely testified. Where there...