Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...actual war or peaceful competition. I can not emphasize too strongly this fact. We must be a strong country in the industrial as well as the martial world. We must conserve more and more of our natural resources and we must apply all our scientific knowledge to get the maximum output with minimum labor fatigue. Our universities can be the first to promote this nation-wide movement. Yale can be a leader of industrial preparedness just as it has been among the foremost in military preparedness. The combination of the two is the only true national service...
Since the crisis with Germany has taken place, the pacifists, headed by Mr. Bryan, have come to the fore, sporting a veritable menagery of peace-doves and soft drinks. I have talked with every advocate of pacifism that I could get close enough to on the street and they all say that, in the President's place, they would have applauded Germany for her latest move and rejoiced that the war was at last on a fair basis. I got several of them to endorse the statement that their lives were more valuable than their honor or their moral welfare...
...young American rushing to the colors to defend other people's interests. If only our older compatriots, weak of loins but mighty of mouth and pen, could be induced to go to the front and put their noble words into action, I think the rest of us would get along, quite well, and be content to mind our own American business. Nobody seems to know exactly what the flags in front of University Hall mean, but if they mean that the young men of Harvard are thirsting for anyone's blood, they ought not to be there. WALTER SILZ...
...course you do, and so you will approve of military training for that purpose. That means "in time of peace prepare for war" and thus get your kick in first...
...class of 1915 maintains a class employment bureau which, however, is a graduate organization both in origin and maintenance. The present senior class has started an innovation by taking hold of the problem while it is still an undergraduate body. In former years various business houses have tried to get graduates, but there has been no way to reach the undergraduates except individually. The new system is expected to act as a medium of communication between...