Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learning and the literary and artistic treasures can be replaced, they will be replaced through the generosity of those friends of scholarship who suffer with you in your loss, and who today rejoice with you in this first step toward restoration. It makes me particularly happy that my own countrymen have had the privilege of sharing in this noble undertaking, and it is my hope that the friendship between the University of Louvain and the universities of America will prove to be one of the strong ties which hold the two nations together...
Most Americans go to Oxford, and that seems to me all the more reason why the opportunity of going to Cambridge is the more precious. An American who goes to an English university does so to associate, for a period, with the English rather than with his own countrymen. The position occupied by Oxford and Cambridge in England is absolutely equal, although Oxford is the better known in America because of her Rhodes Scholars. There is no Americans in Cambridge--for Americans in Cambridge during 1920-21 vigorously opposed the formation of one--and consequently any American in residence...
...able to stand on its feet is quite another. The first may be the course of a patriot; the second savors only of the self-seeking agitator. If Mr. DeValera has any ambition to deserve that niche in the Hall of Irish patriots which not a few of his countrymen once reserved for him, he will hardly continue his present tactics any longer...
Thenceforth, although clear-visioned and a God's evangelist, she must bear with the mockery of her countrymen. Only Coroebus, though he himself can not believe, does not mock. So alone with him upon the sands, . . . she lifted up her eyes Dimed with the tears of unborn prophecies, and spoke her knowledge, foretelling the ruin of her city, in words that lack neither dignity nor inspiration. And as she finishes they hear the ships. The passage that concludes the poem is filled with the very breath of Night, and the fearful charm of a faintly broken silence...
...cannot help think of what would have happened under similar conditions in 1870-71, or what did happen in 1914, when whole villages were razed because of one or two Belgian snipers. Perhaps this difference arises from the fact that the Germans are trying their own offending countrymen--a thing almost unheard of in connection with war, until now--and that the German mind, when it sees itself defeated, invariably turns to self-palliation and vague excuses. Perhaps the difference is one of inborn moral sense; the Germans may never be able to realize that the submarine campaign, as conducted...