Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many English university men were killed in the war, but a greater thing than life--freedom--was saved; I look to the American college man now for decisive action," said the Honorable Arthur James Balfour, leader of the British Mission to this country, in a recent interview in the Yale News...
...bond of ever-lasting union between America and England must be further yoked by the youth of our nations to make a guarantee to the generations of the future of absolute freedom. It is upon the young men that the fate of any nation rests. When the war first struck England, our college men, many of whom were already officers in the army, were immediately put into action. They were among the first sent to France. To them belongs the honor of breaking the rush of the enemy. It was a critical moment and they responded nobly. Many were killed...
...Today our colleges are open, and will be kept thus all through the war. There are, of course, comparatively, few in attendance, these being chiefly wounded men or others physically unfit to go to the front. Education is vital to the existence of any nation, but freedom must first be assured...
...should not blame Russia for an indifference to that war upon which she was the first to enter. She is going the road of political freedom in a few months, which other peoples have only passed after long centuries of struggle. It could not be otherwise than that immediate liberty should swallow up the desire for a more remote national liberty...
...true to our history. Yet not ten million fighting men could free Europe from her ignorance, her ancient brutality, her narrowness, and her political sin. That rests with Europe. And to date that Government which has been called the most enlightened democracy existent has refused to recognize the freedom of women...