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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only affect poetry, to what extent no one can say, but it will change human life all over the globe. The hackneyed question as to how it will affect poetry is of little consequence, for the great European struggle will not decide whether we are to write in sonnet form or in vers libre, but will overturn principles and theories that have been adhered to for centuries...
...Jones Bill which has become law, gives Porto Rico a form of home rule and makes Porto Ricans citizens of the United States. The press of the Island has expressed the joy that the people feel now due to such an important event, and there is faith in the United States and in the spirit of fairness prevailing here which has led this nation to generous action for the benefit of assailed mankind...
American intervention in Cuba transformed a Spanish colony into an independent nation. American intervention in Porto Rico changed a Spanish colony into an American colony. The difference is too obvious to need further explanation, but if it should be urged that although the form of government is different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with...
...duty of the pacifist, like every other citizen, is to serve his country actively. There is not one of us who does not believe in the principle of universal service in return for the benefits of citizenship; but some of us believe that military service is not the only form which it may take. We have problems here at home which will continue with us, war or no war, and which will be neglected in the excitement. I refer especially to the housing, feeding and medical care of the poor in our large cities, to the prevention of disease...
...announcement of a memorial to one of Harvard's heroes who has fallen in the present war, in the form of an international scholarship is by far the most satisfactory solution of the problem of how best to perpetuate the name and fame of those who have made the supreme sacrifice for a foreign land. The Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship is a fitting testimonial to the unselfish generosity which inspired him who gave all that he had to help in the service of France. Monuments of bronze or stone are at best only transient. But through such a memorial...