Word: calling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Down across the broad fields of by-ways of our land, on through main traveled roads and the busy thoroughfares of cities, drives the heavy chariot of Mars, his sleek black horses caparisoned with shining armor. As he sounds his silver bugle, thousands of fair youths heed its call, and trudge bravely forth to do his bidding. From shop and home they come, from the canons of great cities, from the gray cloisters of the universities, all march behind the great van of the tyrant, all with high ideals and hearts undisturbed by the grim realities around them. For theirs...
...take the place of the men who have gone before, when Mars has given them up as a pawn, in the great game. The men at home are dropping the philosophical volume, the poets' lore, for the slide rule and the law of the chemist, in answer to the call of stern necessity. The arts are neglected while the sciences come into their own. And for the moment perhaps, this is best while Mars' cloud lowers on the horizon...
This evening at 7.30 o'clock the student body of the University will meet in the New Lecture Hall at President Lowell's call to learn something of the importance which will be attached to the reconstructive movements that must take place on an international basis at the conclusion of the war. The question of future reconstruction, as seen from several standpoints, will be placed before the members of the University in an effort to arouse among the students an interest in the inevitable rehabilitation of the industrial and political character of the nation. President Lowell will address the meeting...
...their due share in this process of remolding modern society, they must begin now to prepare through thought that upon which they are later to act. These problems are not dreams. They are real in the reality of a Russian revolution. They are as inevitable as life itself. The call upon college men for real thought and active interest in the world's affairs has never been greater than now. May the provincial among us soon be a creature of the past...
...service may be read, instruction as to how every college student can do his part to win the war can be given and a pledge of allegiance to the flag and to the cause of the war repeated by all. The colleges of America have responded nobly to the call to arms. On April 6th the faculties and students should let their brothers in the field know that they are with them in spirit and in effort. WILLIAM MATHER LEWIS...