Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...respect and admire the spirit that makes the student who is under age desire to render immediate service in the war, especially where there is personal danger; and yet to do so may not be the greatest service he can render to the country. Men who are responsible for the conduct of the war, who see the question in the large, who are thinking of the human resources of the nation as a whole, seem to be generally of opinion that college students will be in the end more profitable if they continue their education until they...
With her back to the sea, Holland's outlook before superior German strength is indeed dark. If she joins Germany she will lose her independence and become but a vassal of that power. If she maintains her neutrality she stands in danger of destruction. As regards the present there seems little choice. In the long run, however, it behooves the Dutch to brave the risk of opposition. A crushed Holland will in the end find liberation. A Germanized Holland will ingloriously terminate a great page of history and will leave a blot upon the Dutch name which nothing...
...There is danger that President Eliot's originality and independence may be obscured by the very completeness of his success. To the new generation he is one of the great figures of the educational world, and his words are listened to with the respect which is given to one of established reputation...
...them some kind of training corps, which change the old atmospheres of academic case to the modern air of military vigor. Apparently the old traditions have been lost forever. But we have the word of the Archbishop of York that in spite of this great change, there is no danger that when the war is over that students will not have the benefits of the long years that have gone before. There will be a change, it is true, but a change that will be a deepening and ennobling of old-established custom...
...They want food and peace and Germany free outwardly and inwardly. Any attempt to hold them by force is dangerous. All thoughts of an attempt to force on the people aims which prolong the war, aims for which they never fought, or to keep from the people their promised rights, can only work as disintegrating factors. That today is our greatest danger." --The Outlook...