Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...German people can be made to bear the ever-increasing burdens of war without questioning the legitimacy or power of the authority over them. The first is that of holding out world domination as the reward of victory. The fact that the military advantage in the war has so far lain with Germany has resulted in the belief by the majority of the German people that the war is already won. The other method consists in pointing out in exaggerated terms what England and her allies will do to Germany if they win. The English have threatened not only...
...their actual interpretation, would split the democratic from the imperialistic elements in Germany. Such a movement would accomplish our armies in the war no less than military success. The United States does not have to go through three years of war to find out that it is fighting for far higher things than, for example, a section of territory...
...much greater significance is the formation of a club located abroad in the general center of activity at Paris, to which members of many American colleges may go for society and recreation. Far from the scenes of their college life, it will give to its members a feeling of the nearness and presence of old associations, and an opportunity for making or renewing the acquaintanceships which have meant so much in the past...
...farming are carried on. What is needed is some means of exerting a constant and universal pressure on the labor population as a whole. The mere arrest of leaders is not enough. The final solution of the problem must be constructive, rather, than has been the case thus far, destructive. Only in this way can those who deserve the severe treatment of the law be sifted from the large majority of right-thinking working men, and the possibility of serious labor disturbances next spring be prevented. The government has an enormous but imperative task upon its hands. A general appreciation...
...anecdote of ambulance work and of a brave young Frenchman. "War in the Home" satirizes, all too gently, a frivolous American family; and "The Road to Victory," by James Gore King '20, goes back to France, and makes a vision of Napoleon inspire Gen. Petain. It is far from sure that Napoleon deserves so much credit...