Word: demand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...news from Europe causes us to rejoice. But at the same time it makes us thoughtful. We feel the seriousness of the coming months. We know that the good of the nation will demand even greater moral and mental strength than was demanded by the war. To keep the world safe, to substitute better ideals for those that are outworn, to protect the weak, to direct the powerful, to build social machinery that will serve all classes and all nations without injustices--here are some of the tasks confronting us. Boston Traveler...
...have been officers. The union has taken over a hotel for the period of the war and it is the meeting place for college men. Many of the colleges have an overseas club-room there. About 125 men are taken care of nightly and there is always a big demand for quarters...
...This war, I hope, is going to end the power of force in the world, but it is not going to end time nor blot out the human race. The future is going to demand leadership as the past has demanded it. Young men who have the opportunity to obtain liberal education should not, through more patriotic feelings and because they are fearful that somebody will allude to them as slackers, drop this training and rush indiscriminately into the army...
...essential industry, a real incentive is supplied toward securing a more perfect war organization. This measure means the elimination of idlers of all types. It recognizes that while the complexity of modern society and the need of preparing for the future require as few changes as possible, essential industries demand the first attention of our population. The manhood of the nation is being organized as never before. It is a sign which portends the maximum of accomplishment within the minimum of time; it is war-efficiency...
...sense of the word, I means nothing less than the creation of a second West Point, with certain additional advantages of access to the treasures of cultural learning which are at Princeton. At a time when no man can foresee either the full extent of the military demand which the present war will make upon the nation before it is done or the nature of the new problems which will come after it, this effort to assist a thoroughgoing preparedness is of much value...