Word: know
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...take it for granted that you know I'm at last in the service, here at the ground school, for which I am thankful...
...service to his government. In that sense most of us are found wanting. We neglect a hundred opportunities for service. The Red Cross, institutions of all kinds engaged in social betterment, Liberty Loan campaigns, all point to a vast need of men. Not one half of us know what war is. It does not permit us to pass our days in usual routine. It calls for radical readjustments, real sacrifices, and a tireless activity...
With firm confidence in the ultimate mercy of that Providence which regulates all things transient and trivial in the minds of men, I enter the lists of the educational combat as an humble suppliant, who only desires to know why these things...
Does anybody know what it is all about? Does anybody care? If I were to approach Mr. Lazarus, or Mr. Joslyn, or last but not least Mr. Tucker, and say to them: here is Harvard University, a poor sort of institution at best, but just now utterly ruined by the lamentable uncertainty as to the educational program which it is to adopt for the future; take it; take it as a gift, and do with it what you will, so long as you write no longer--would they then leap to the opportunity and reorganize us all, or would they...
...maintain that a distortion of news to inflate the spirits of the people serves no good purpose. When the outlook is dark, as it now is, it should be known, so that our energies may be redoubled. This is the people's war. It is only fair that they know which way the tide is turning. Moreover, our purpose is sincere enough not to require a misleading encouragement. We need not be patted on the back by sentimental expressions of the "nobility of our cause" which are insincere and almost repel us from a belief in what we are fighting...