Word: defend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another extract Mr. Angell gives attention to War. "What is the problem of War?" he writes. "Why do nations give their first care to the preparedness for it? To defend themselves. But that means that someone believes in attack; otherwise, if no one believed in the effectiveness of successful attack, none of us would be threatened, and the whole problem would be solved...
...defense replies that it is not servile submissiveness which work in preparation for possible war induces, but steadfastness, discipline, and respect for authority. The United States will never have in any degree a military autocracy. Its democracy needs, however, an efficient fighting servant, which can be used to defend its members...
...exists primarily for the sake of defending himself. He exists for the sake of doing things. The same is true of nations. Among the things which a man may be called on to do are the helping and protecting of others. The same is true of nations. We Americans have passed our national infancy; it is no longer our chief biological function to feed and fatten and protect ourselves. We have reached the age of public responsibility; and unless we wish to invite national atrophy and decline, we must make up our mind to do a man's part...
...will be well taken care of by Maban, and besides, in the modern game of deceptive play, the wisdom of having a lineman drop back to kick is doubtful. Dadmun's play in the Yale game marked him as a guard of unusual ability, for not only did he defend his position impregnably, but time and again he took out both his own man and a player on the secondary defense giving remarkable interference as a guard on end runs. His down-the-field work will be remembered by last Saturday's episode of Bingham being "thrown by Gilman...
...college education under the title "Vicarious Thinking" in the New York Nation. He charges the undergraduate with intellectual sloth and the educational system with failure to awaken in him enthusiasm for ideas. This is not an occasion in which the college man should jump into the breech and unqualifiedly defend himself and the system under which he works. It is doubtful if any undergraduate can be found who, if complacent in regard to his own spiritual and intellectual condition, is satisfied with that of his fellows. Many students are not only inefficient in their studying, but lack any vital interest...