Word: humanitarian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...willed it or not, that isolation of this nation which Washington urged. By our entrance into the World War, we gave up formally our position apart from the affairs of the world. We are in them now; we cannot withdraw. The progress of science and the development of a humanitarian feeling for the rest of mankind has placed us irrevocably on the side of world politics...
...vanquished enemies. To an extent, at least, this is a hopeful sign, for after Germany's military claws have been once and forever clipped, the less economic punishment inflicted upon her, the better will it be for the population of the world at large, as well as the more humanitarian and in accord with the frequently and loftily expressed Allied aims. To kick a nation that already lies grovelling is poor economics as well as poor humanity...
What the Norton-Harges Ambulance Unit has done is written large in the history of the relations between America and the Allies during the first years of the war. Its humanitarian results were testified by the request frequently made by wounded men to be evacuated in an American ambulance...
...contradiction but the result as the system now stands can hardly be otherwise. A young student will either make up his mind thoughtlessly and regret it later or else he will be entirely dominated by those who are appointed to guide him in his choice. The benefits from a "humanitarian" education to assist one in deciding upon ones career will be entirely eliminated. It will be "concentration" carried to the nth degree, but the "distribution" will very largely be lacking...
...this Unit in its more than three years of active and, as I believe, efficient existence, has made the name of Harvard known and trusted; that it has importantly increased the possibilities that the University may be of real service after the War; and that this, rather than its humanitarian or military aspects, has been and should be regarded as its real purpose. Certainly, those of us who have sacrificed not only our time but in all probability our future prospects to the transaction of this work have not done so without the hope that this might prove...