Word: hands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other hand if we do not believe in repression and yet cannot remain indifferent to the starvation of millions, the senseless strife of whole peoples, there is still a course open to us. We could send a force capable of putting a stop to all bloodshed and of restoring order, thus allowing the economic resources to reorganize and facilitating the shipment of food. Then, when all was quiet, we would support whatever government or governments in the several parts of Russia could find the backing of the people. Such governments would in time stand or fall on their own ability...
...University, on the other hand, was the only American college to have a mission of French Officers, and a Naval Radio School...
...professional studies will be required of the first- or second-year undergraduate. In taking up these subjects before the close of his college career, the student will be enabled to complete his professional training sooner. This is distinctly contrary to our conception of college education. On the one hand we find Yale embarking upon a system of early professionalism, and on the other hand we find Harvard clinging to the doctrine of "liberal education...
...with power to control the operation thereof. Not only would such a body have considerably more effectiveness and weight in executing its projects than the two undergraduates who have been elected annually to the vice-presidency and secretaryship in the past, but it would also have at first hand a more diverse range of opinion and broader vision...
...from every able-bodied man without pay. Soldiers in the present national army of the United States receive one dollar a day as pay, in addition to being completely found by the government. Considering what the modern soldier has to do and bear in trench warfare, in bayonet and hand grenade assaults and in storming towns and cities from the air, the idea of a man's doing it for pay is absolutely revolting. No worthy soldier does it or would do it for pay. He does and endures the horrible things required of him from a sense of duty...