Word: done
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...word for the deed, and confound its accomplishments with its hopes. That is the error of youth, which makes grandiose speeches about conquering the world, and then starts out to earn its bread and butter. Compare Germany, which did not say what she would do till it was done. At Liege, when the valiant defenders were rejoicing that the German advance had been stemmed, and her great war-machine broken, she brought up, without warning, without boasting, her terrible siege guns, each drawn by nineteen tractors, and planted them where they could crush the ring of forts. Germany's first...
America cannot make war by saying what she will do, which is not determinate, not what she has done, which is not stupendous. She cannot make war less wisely than her enemy...
...weak-kneed terror by some bugaboo of a submarine destroyer? Do we think she will yield to old-womanish fears, and flee in terror from Belgium, when she hears that America is about to set forth to wither her enemies? If words could move Germany, our words would have done so. Words cannot move Germany. She has not a fear of our prowess equal to our confidence...
...make no threats until we have done some worthy deed in the conflict of nations to justify our martial pride...
Every Senior who has not already done so should send in his class life to the Secretary before June 1, 1917. As the work of compiling class reports is very important, owing to the present crisis. It is essential that the Class Secretary should receive a class life from every man in the class...