Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present need is for instant remedy. Within a short while, if we are to follow our schedule, another increment of draftees must be called out. Although there may be no necessity for summoning men outside of Class 1, yet a surplus in this division will do no harm...
...What harm is there in getting out of bed an hour earlier? It is light enough to read at 6.30 A. M. these days. Don't let a patriotic wish to save electricity keep you in bed. Can the College fear a new experience? Are we to prate falsly of too many war-privations? It is extremely easy in these days of early closing theatres and amusements to go to bed an hour earlier. Indeed, only from the outside point of view would it be an hour earlier. To us under the new schedule we would be going...
...might be corrected. Their lives had been spent in dealing with principles and theories and abstractions. But now they have come into power at a time when many things are being changed and theories may actually be put into practice. They see that though the wear may do much harm it may also be the source of much that is good. Their vision reaches beyond the peace council that is yet to come. They are aiming at the creation of a new order in this country where the virtues of war may be the blessings of peace, and the United...
...will have the knowledge to elevate their spirits that they shunned in now way injury or destruction because of fear, or weakness soaring into dishonor. But what of those men who now fearfully and silently, are contemplating how they may avoid, by perjury or any means that will not harm their mortal lives, the imminent danger which goes with battle? If they are alive in twenty years, will they face the memory gladly of that which they might have done, and left undone? Will they find the life they have lived so all surpassing lovely? And they, the very cowardly...
...beer during the war. For the rest, I am inclined to the view that the Government should move cautiously, and always in co-operation with the leaders in the grain and flour trade, who alone have the knowledge required to make any Governmental action do more good than harm. It is not as easy to handle the food supply of America as it was to distribute a known supply of food to the Belgians--and that was no easy problem