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...loyal thing to do in war-time, when the Government is doing its best to so redirect our national energy as to enable us to win this war. When democracy is fighting for its very life, it does not show a very high appreciation of democracy to hinder it in that fight...
...message Major Ian Hay Beith gave to the Law School Society and the Graduate School Society yesterday evening. But such optimism as Ian Hay's must not be the cause of one moment's delay in our war preparations and in our firm dealing with all who hinder these preparations. Just as the Allies are concentrating all military affairs in one supreme command, so must we bend all our energies at home to the same united end. It is good to hear words of cheer, but they must lead only to greater determination...
...this year to lose nothing. They are starting out well, but the race has just begun. The Recorder and the Dean may not be more severe than in former years, but they are infinitely more interested in the progress made in Harvard College. Let not the word of encouragement hinder that progress...
Compunctions about leaving the United States in such a national crisis should not hinder anyone from volunteering for this work in Europe, as the matter of giving these ambulance drivers a recognized status in time of war with the members of the regular army is being taken up by the Government at Washington, and an announcement regarding this is expected shortly. The term of enlistment for the two new sections will be for six months, the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps having entire charge of the enterprise, the donor supplying all necessary funds to make it a complete success. C. Higginson...
...question of universal military service is now before the nation; and with it the question whether the inauguration of universal service in America at this time will hinder the proposed movement toward world peace. Foreign nations would far more readily accept the American proposal if it were offered by a nation avowedly strong than if it were offered by a weak nation craving refuge from the fear of threatened war. Opponents of universal service may claim that America derives sufficient power from her voluntary system, but this claim would bear her little weight with foreign powers, the more important...