Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Thomas deW. Milling, of the United States Signal Corps, who is in charge of the aviation training schools established by the government under the new Reserve Officers' Training Corps Act, will come to Cambridge during the latter part of the month to speak to all members of the University who are interested in flying. According to the new law applications may be made for enrolment at one of the present training schools, and the applicant, if accepted, will undergo six months training at the expense of the government at the end of which time he will be commissioned...
...There would appear to be only two means of stopping war, either a league of the nations of the earth for that purpose or the domination of the whole world by one government. The latter does not come within American philosophy, for we would not be that nation if we could, and if we did, we should lose in the process all in the way of politics principles that we have stood for, and we certainly cannot contemplate a domination of the world by any other nation...
...League to Enforce Peace, because it proposes the use of force. The experience of the work has shown that when any authority is set up backed by force men cease to carry arms, but are ready, if necessary to support those to whom force is entrusted. The time has come when we must put force behind international law as we do behind every other kind of law that is obeyed...
...single artistic achievement of this book is the subtle suggestion of war that runs through it. From the first poem, in which we come to the river-dock at day-break, to the last poem, in which we rise before dawn to take an early train away from the ancient city, there is the quiet echo of fighting that is more impressive for its quietness...
...cannot last forever. Come, give us a hand before it is too late. If you don't you will regret it all the rest of your life. And when your children say: "Daddy, what did you do in the great war? Surely Wilson did not lull your conscience to sleep" what will...