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This is not the time, therefore, to single out any particular group or class of citizens for reproach. All classes are equally guilty and equally meritorious. That is there are individuals in all classes who are willing to suffer inconvenience and hardship in order to win the war, and there are others who are not. There is not the slightest doubt that a strike in any essential industry is a hindrance to the great work of massing our man power at the points where it is needed. No loyal citizen who sees and understands that fact can possibly favor...
...willingness to change one's mind on good cause shown is one of the essential qualities of an administrative officer or of a statesman. The original decision was disheartening to the men now in training, its execution would have imposed real hardship upon those not selected for immediate service. But the foundation reason for reserving the order was the need of the army. The national army in a very short time will require the service of all the men from the training camps. It would have been a mistake to return them, over temporarily, to civil life, because...
Where is the hardship in the compulsory education system as Americans know it and submit to it? Upon that system as it is now applied rests the country's safety from internal foes. The time has come to extend it in such a manner that it will protect the nation from external attack. Shall we Americans be less alert in protecting our institutions from foreign enemies than we are in guarding those institutions from ourselves...
...chief hardship caused by this condition appears to fall on the younger men, for the young teacher is not able to earn $2,500 until appointment as an assistant professor. If he rises to the top of his profession, he is earning $5,500 by the time he is about 55 years...
Four hundred and one men enlisted in the Spanish war, the largest number of whom were in the First Volunteer Cavalry, the "Rough Riders." The men were in the fiercest fighting, and bore the most desperate hardship in the Santiago campaign. Two prominent graduates of Harvard, Leonard Wood and Theodore Roosevelt, won their promotions in this campaign...