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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...come, will be powers in their own countries. They burn with a deep love for their homeland. Their impressions of America and Americans, to a great degree, are acquired here on the campus. We owe it to ourselves, to the University and to the nation, to meet and to know these students who are virtually our guests. We owe it to ourselves, chiefly because we can learn much from them that will broaden our sympathies and understanding. The Pennsylvanian...
...means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations that always acted precipitately would save themselves much intellectual effort. But rather than have a mere "decision by speculation" in the railroad strike, Mr. Paine prefers what we had, namely, , a hasty leap into "experience," a creation of precedent we do not know how disastrous, and justifiable only to Democrats who can enjoy the fruits of its political expediency...
...become almost the mark of culture and broad-mindedness to hold in contempt the nation's money, lust, and laud to the point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always easy to find the commonplace in that which a man knows, and to see in that which he does not know glamor and super-material beauty. Burdened by his own provincialism, which he considers cosmopolitan breadth, the highly (?) educated--in the bookish sense,--young man of America is fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely...
...competent captain or an efficient lieutenant requires not only a theoretical knowledge by study, but also a practical knowledge by actual experience. When an officer gives a command he should know it is properly executed, and should be able to show his men how it should be executed; he can only do this after being properly instructed himself. Therefore I say that a good part of the allotted time should be devoted to practical instruction. I mean drill. All-other reason and a vital one is, that an officer should be capable of estimating intelligently the physical capabilities...
...many know even the location of the Washington Elm, of Oliver Wendell Holmes birthplace, of Wadsworth House, of Longfellow's old home? How many realize that there is a sacred significance in the name that has been degraded to "Mem" or that the title "Soldiers Field" was intended to be more than a mere designation of Harvard's athletic grounds...