Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ambulance Service who was killed at Salonica, but whom the war changed from a dawdler to a man. "War is good," stated Professor Moore, "in that it makes men. This war has called many from past and present classes of the University, and in so far as they hold themselves true, the war will make them. But if they do not, it will just as surely unmake them as the Civil War ruined so many young men of that day, making them good-for-nothing after...
...this point the speaker brought his words home by declaring that unless those who stay here hold themselves just as true on a fixed course, they will become "mere onlookers, helpless to aid in the struggle. In some ways," he went on, "it is harder for us at home than for those who are fighting, for they have a concrete task before them, while we apparently have only a stale, dull, unimportant routine ahead...
Once again Columbia comes before the world in an unenviable light. In this morning's paper we read of the expulsion of Professors Cattell and Dana from that university for holding pacifist views (oh, la belle raison!). Some of us still hold to the belief (is it so unreasonable?) that a professor dissenting from the majority opinion respecting the governmental war policy is not thereby disqualified from teaching psychology or comparative literature. The Columbia Faculty, however, take the opposite view and apparently agree with the Imperial German Government that political orthodoxy is the test of intellectual capacity. Indeed one might...
...this time we must keep hold of our prospective. Our culture, which is the total of man's thought during dark centuries of confusion and terror, remains beyond this war, beyond a hundred cycles of wars. When it is gone, there is nothing...
...encouragement of registration in courses which will give students particular training for war. The war has not decreased the need of the college man. It has greatly increased it. To all men remaining in the academic life of the country there has come as direct a challenge to hold to their educational work as any that has come to the country for war. --Boston Transcript...