Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...England thinks that America has made a great earnest sacrifice and that now the two countries must stand together. The British would be amazed if we did not follow them up. Britain has not always been able to find her ideal leader but at this time she has found salvation in the man who is qualified to lead, more by circumstances than by the devotion of the intellectual classes. And to this choice the British expect to find a parallel in America's future conduct, for the circumstances are no less urgent and the end is far greater...
...statement cannot be doubted. For the sake of an ideal, America sent millions of men to Europe and placed all her resources at the disposal of the Allies when, in a material sense, she had nothing to gain. No nation in history has ever before made such sacrifices for such a reason...
...precepts of their training expressed so eloquently by Lowell in his "Commemoration Ode" were followed again by Harvard men in the World War. They rushed into the service in all parts of the globe, willingly sacrificing themselves for an ideal. And now when peace is here the University is showing her versatility by immediately adjusting herself once more to the ways of peace. Her sons are returning filled with the desire of serving their country vigorously in other fields than that of war. They face the future with the spirit of James Russell Lowell...
...theory the present system is ideal. Let the class by petition choose its candidates for office. Let the class officers add to this list of nominees only when it is necessary. But in practice, because, perhaps, of a persisting apathy in class affairs, the law as it stands leaves the class with the majority, or as in the case of 1920, with all, of its nominees chosen by a very...
...Europe east of Germany is full of small nationalities which would be an easy prey to a reconstructed Germany if no league is formed. Now is the ideal time to form a league when the Allies are united. Splendid isolation must not mislead us, every man must think for himself and decide the most important question which the American people have to answer...