Word: conflicted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rights of our nation, as it now seems to be, thinking men--and that includes undergraduates--have a difficult but a great duty to perform; that is, to preserve reason and calm judgment when the passions of the unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest. If we fight it will be to maintain our rights as a sovereign nation with honor and dignity; our aim will...
...everybody worthy of the name of American to abide by its consequences. I sincerely believe that I am speaking for all German-Americans when I say that we will support the President through thick and thin and rise and fall with him. We may not enter into the conflict, if there is to be a conflict, as joyfully and eagerly as some others, but though our hearts are heavy and our souls are sick we see our duty clearly, and will not hestitate to perform...
...most part unexpectedly to the majority of college men. The United States has been in such positions before during the long period of the great war, and each time the bellicose have called for battle, and the pacific have prayed for peace. Each time our government has avoided the conflict with what measure of honor only the future can tell. And now we are face to face with another situation, more serious than the others it would seem. But, in reality this newest peril presages no more than the previous crises our entrance into the holocaust of the nations...
...following schedule of interdormitory hockey games has been arranged. None of the games will conflict with the practice of the Freshman or second teams...
Charles A. Stone, Technology 1888, retiring president of the Association, emphasized the fact that it is the technically trained men who are fighting the battles abroad today; who will direct the reconstruction after the conflict, and who will be needed to prepare this country for the altered industrial conditions after...