Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...States into the world-war and the quick response on the part of the gallant little republic of Cuba naturally places the people of Porto Rico in a difficult position. It is especially embarrassing for us Porto Rican students in this country, who are enjoying the hospitality of the American people and who cherish highly the personal friendships of its citizens, to have to lie idle while our classmates and friends are making war preparations. Our apparent indifference is so apt to be misunderstood and hastily labelled ungratefulness, especially as contrasted with the action taken by Cuba, that...
...American intervention in Cuba transformed a Spanish colony into an independent nation. American intervention in Porto Rico changed a Spanish colony into an American colony. The difference is too obvious to need further explanation, but if it should be urged that although the form of government is different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with...
...think the work of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in the American universities, and especially at Harvard, is excellent and on the right lines. I agree thoroughly with General Wood on the subject of intensive training for the R. O. T. C., and believe that the development of officers in the American universities is of vital importance to the country. They cannot do better than to carry out the Plattsburg idea of military training. I am immensely impressed with the situation in the colleges of the United States today, and the work of their members is being watched with interest...
...before yesterday six French officers sailed from Bordeaux for Cambridge on a mission somewhat similar--to train the members of the R. O. T. C. in all phases of modern trench warfare. Military science has been revolutionized since the days of the Spanish-American war, our last war. Tactics count a great deal more, strategy much less. It is all important that our soldiers should know how to handle the new implements of warfare and understand their use. A platoon leader today has to do more than judge the range for his men and lead them over a ploughed field...
...song difficult to sing, but none the less splendid. Its effect has been and can be one of infinite magnitude. This effect, however, is dependent on the way it is sung. "The Star Spangled Banner" is not a Chanson sans Paroles. Yet it would seem that many American citizens hold this opinion when a band or orchestra play it. The mumbling and lipcontortions which immediately ensue are not conducive to raising the level of one's feelings. Perhaps at no time in her history has our nation so needed all the latent patriotism that exists. Learning the words...