Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard: "The universities ought to inspire in all their students an ardent love of country and of public liberty. This seems to me the only and the sufficient, contribution which universities should make toward national defence. In the present highly developed condition of warfare on land and sea, there is only one way of providing for the national defence, namely, universal military service of the Swiss sort...
...cannot believe that Harvard men would not flock to the standard the moment any definite action was taken. We cannot believe that Mr. Cecil H. Smith and his disciples are ardent pro-Germans. But for the good of the University, the country and the world, let us try to avoid such a hindering spirit, and to put in its place an honest desire to help the country up on its feet, eventually to enforce a lasting peace. PAUL W. INGRAHAM...
...policy which cannot even commence to take effect until the European War is brought to a close. In the meantime, with the outcome still trembling in the balance, ought we to omit preparations for all possible emergencies through reliance on a plan of universal peace, which even its most ardent supporters admit is at present little more than an ambitious hope? And it must also be noted that if a League to Enforce Peace does become a reality, the United States will be called upon to furnish its quota of the forces which are to police the world...
...Woodrow Wilson Club was formally organized in the Trophy Room of the Union last night, when 80 members of the University, all ardent supporters of the President, met to lay plans for taking active part in the coming campaign. There was somewhat of a struggle between the old Democratic Club and the promoters of the new organization, but those who sympathize with the Democratic party in the University will now be known as members of the Woodrow Wilson Club...
...Harvard is now open. What will it teach? For fifty years our American professors and students have been in ardent pursuit of German ideals of scholarship; they have tortured themselves to attain German thoroughness, Gruendlichkeit; they have taken all the arts and sciences and done them over in the likeness of a German image. We have profited by this, for it has checked our native love for the hasty and impermanent ways of the pioneer...