Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...often this sort of competition is marred by a distorted patriotism which takes the form of hatred and prejudice against the representatives of the other nation. Let us hope that this particular manifestation of childishness will not be seen tonight. Our country is at an acute crisis. It cannot afford to make enemies, even in a way apparently so unimportant. Our Canadian opponents should be greeted by a large crowd in an enthusiastic spirit of friendly rivalry...
...true that the popular recrudescence of this tradition has had to bide its time. Today an educational guide to the South cannot concern itself too exclusively with the great institutions before mentioned. They merely stand among the leaders in a section where even the masses of the people are newly turning their faces to the light of education. There has been a great increase in the numbers of students enrolled in the high schools. University extension work and summer school courses are attracting widespread attention. It is bot a matter of numbers alone. in the spirit of these students, there...
Captain Cordier is at present working out a detailed plan of instruction, but the final announcements cannot be made until it is approximately known how many men will enrol in the unit. In accordance with instructions from the War Department Captain Cordier has already made application for the discharge from the militia of certain men who are both in Military Science 1 and in some organization of the state militia. Any undergraduates who are at present in the militia and who wish to join the officers' unit for the second half-year should hand in their names to Captain Cordier...
...arrives the tragic, the supreme moment. The inclinations of the heart cannot give way to the call of duty. The country of our choice sends out the stern demand for that unswerving loyalty to the flat--a loyalty which it must expect of every one of its citizens. And there can be only one answer. We must rally to the flat under which we live and prosper. Our hearts are bleeding at the thoughts of fratricide, but they must bleed. We will shame those that would cast the odium of disloyalty on us. In all our history no traitor...
...duty of every Harvard man to abstain from offering nostrums of his own for the avoidance of war. The President will avoid war if it can honorably be avoided. If it cannot honorably be avoided, war must come. It is the duty of Harvard men to line up ready for orders, not to take a vote as to the wisdom of those orders. If war must come, let us enter the war as a united nation, not as a divided nation after a bitter political struggle. Let every Harvard man frown on the suggestion that war be preceded...