Word: claimed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...paragraph 6 we are told that "participation by America in the general European conflict would be a misfortune to humanity." Have we any special claim to being the pet of humanity? Just as good people as we are fighting and they are fighting on the side of humanity. Should we smugly hold ourselves to be too good to fight by their sides? We are not the chosen people of humanity, though if we were would we not be under even greater obligations to defend...
...such remedies. This thing the pacifists forget. They look to the future, ignoring the dangers of the present time. Their means of solving international disputes may be successful in a later and happier century, but they have no force now in compelling Germany to recognize those rights we claim...
...Roger I. Lee '02, professor of hygiene, in an article in the Alumni Bulletin affirms that the athletic heart is normal and that the usual claim that the athlete's heart is enlarged because of his activities is wrong. He draws his conclusions from examinations made upon more than 2,000 students, including the members of the University crew. Only 20 per cent. of this total were found to have abnormal hearts and there were very few athletes among them...
...apparent fact is that Germany has had the insolence to dictate to us just how many ships we may send to England, when they must arrive, what port they must sail to, and how they must be painted! As she has no blockade, Germany has absolutely no right to claim control over commerce with England. The German mailed fist has pulled American's nose before, which was shameful; now it has slapped her face, which is unbearable. ROYALL H. SNOW...
...will hinder the proposed movement toward world peace. Foreign nations would far more readily accept the American proposal if it were offered by a nation avowedly strong than if it were offered by a weak nation craving refuge from the fear of threatened war. Opponents of universal service may claim that America derives sufficient power from her voluntary system, but this claim would bear her little weight with foreign powers, the more important of which have discarded voluntary service as inefficient and unsuccessful. By adopting universal service we can not only add weight to a proposal of world peace...