Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some of those who are at present shouting in our ears that war is inevitable tell us that our country must go into it from motives of humanity. "Remember our murdered citizens," is the cry. Yes, let us throw ourselves into the conflict and avenge the death of these blockade-runners by the sacrifice of a thousand times their number--doubtless the dead will rest easier in their graves. I us retaliate for our loss of ships by offering our entire merchant marine, out of the war-zone as well as in, as food for submarines. Let us paralyze...
...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...
...clock. Coach Haines will briefly outline the plans for the coming season, and Dr. Denny will speak on the subject of training. An important announcement in regard to the Reserve Officers Training Corps will be made by Captain H. B. Cabot '17. In order that there may be no conflict between the rowing and the academic work of candidates, especially in the case of Military Science and Tactics 1, it will be necessary for each man to have with him a copy of his schedule, including particularly his hours for military drill, sections and lectures...
This naval training will not supercede nor conflict with the course in training for the military unit. Army service helps qualify an applicant for the officers' reserve of the navy. In the same way the naval training will broaden an army officer's knowledge of the problems of national defence...
...these hours of suspense a great, tragic conflict shakes the hearts of millions of American citizens of German birth or descent. For nearly three years our brothers on the other side of the Atlantic have held at bay a world of enemies. The terrible hardships of trench warfare, aided by enemy bullets and shrapnel, thinned their ranks--spread over a front of thousands of miles. England's starvation blockade, which the American Government itself admitted to be "illegal and indefensible," finds its daily victims among the children and the aged behind the fronts. The few letters that reach...