Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possibility of a diplomatic break with Germany which has existed for the past two years has suddenly become a a serious fact. Our government by submitting in the past to countless acts of violence against our citizens and national honor has tried in every conceivable manner, but in vain, to avert a rupture with the German nation. In the future our actions, whether hostile or not, will be clearly defined and will follow the strong policy inaugurated by the official dismissal of the German Ambassador...
...majority of college men. The United States has been in such positions before during the long period of the great war, and each time the bellicose have called for battle, and the pacific have prayed for peace. Each time our government has avoided the conflict with what measure of honor only the future can tell. And now we are face to face with another situation, more serious than the others it would seem. But, in reality this newest peril presages no more than the previous crises our entrance into the holocaust of the nations...
...Those personal powers of visualizing which have laid dormant in most of us are awakened to splendid things by the complete success with which Dame suggestion is introduced throughout. The subtle Frenchman who is responsible for this piece certainly did not regard his audience as ignoble or stupid, and honor is his for this count...
...almost every case a nation declares hostilities, not in self-defence or to ward off invasion, but in the secret interest of powerful and unscrupulous commercial, manufacturing and financial combinations, who, for their own selfish purposes, play upon the public's sense of fear, patriotism or national pride. "National honor" and "manifest destiny" represent hackneyed--though, alas, still potent--catch-words employed in this connection. What assurance has the American people that a vast and efficient military establishment will not constitute such a source of temptation to our imperialistic interests as inevitably to be used for purposes of foreign exploitation...
...assembled for the occasion represented nearly every state in the Union and constituted far and away the largest number of letter men of a single university ever collected under one roof. Captain Black's 1916 eleven, last fall's coaching staff and the Football Committee were the guests of honor...