Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...somehow unmanly for us not to be doing some fighting. They feel that our differences with Mexico ought to be made an affair of honor. President Wilson's view seems to be that it would be dishonorable and cowardly to make war upon a weak nation, distracted by civil wars. Remembering that this Republic is dedicated to certain great principles, he apparently feels that we ought to put no difficulties in the way of those Mexicans who are fighting, however blindly, for the same things for which the men of '76 fought...
Another short address was given by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55. In his speech he extolled the spirit, the bravery and the sacrifice of the men who gave their lives for a cause in which they thoroughly believed. He instanced several experiences in the Civil War to show the heroic character of a soldier who gives up his life in battle. He said, "These men have performed a great sacrifice. They fought because they loved freedom and hated oppression. Our country mourns the loss of their lives...
...Republican party is fighting this year is one peculiarly dear to Harvard men who have vanquished the vaunted spectre of indifference and who feel themselves called to a wider, nobler, service than that to which the usual political program leads. For, after all, the tariff, the merchant marine and civil service reform, however long and heatedly they may be discussed are not the dominant issues of this campaign. The pivot on which the election really turns is the maintenance of the national spirit, of that love of liberty which does not seek to become license that has made America great...
...such figures and considers the assertion "that the attainment of high grades in collegiate studies is normally necessary to the attainment of success in life" an absurdity. In order to expose the absurdity of this view the Transcript cites the classic example of Generals Grant and Lee in the Civil War. The latter attained the highest rank at West Point, while Grant was satisfied with "a gentleman's standard," yet in their later careers the advantage appears to have been reversed. Upon careful investigation and reference to impartial authorities, Lee, fighting for a lost cause and laboring under every disadvantage...
Soldiers Field is already dedicated to those soldiers of the Civil War whose memory is enshrined there. It would seem a pity to difute that interest by adding other tablets. M. ELLIOT...