Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...want you men at Harvard to feel that we are going because we are white men. It is our duty as humans to help care for the wounded and dying over there; we are not going on any international joy ride. Those of us who have been among the people of the countries at war know that Harvard has done more than any other American university to help relieve the suffering in this war, and we must maintain that record...
...months at a time. Harvard also sent an expedition to fight typhus in Serbia. Harvard's casualty list in consequence has grown pretty long. Not a bad record for one neutral university, eh? I don't seem to remember your Oxford or Cambridge sending out a medical unit to help us when we were fighting for a moral issue, back in the 'sixties, under Lincoln...
Harry D. Sleeper, American representative of the American Ambulance Field Service, prophesies that the service will be widely extended in the next few weeks. Five more sections are contemplated, and to help man these ambulances new units will be sent abroad...
...peace at any price" societies. The nation knows that Woodrow Wilson will not declare war unless it is the last resort. He should be left unhampered by the doubtful exhortations of pacifists. If Mr. Wilson decides that we must have war, let us have war, and let us help crush the violator of all rights, human and divine. If he can give us an honorable peace, let us thank God for his mercy. It is indeed deplorable that at this time, when patriotism should be at its highest, such an organization, its sentiments so alien to the past ideals...
...should come, there is not one chance in ten that our army would be called on to fight with the Entente in Europe. The need of a land force would be for police duty and moral support at home. But our Navy will be called to help guard all the sea-ways of the world against sporadic and destructive attacks upon commerce...