Word: learns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...getting all parties to work together. The task was too difficult for him and the captivating platform put forth by the internationalists, some of the planks of which are undeniably good, aided by German intrigue, steadily won the Russian workmen and soldiers. Soon they will learn their mistake. Trotsky will pass from the stage and his book will likewise pass, for it has neither literary, historical or inspirational value. Only for one reason is it worth reading, to find out what international socialists are thinking about the war. This, however, is no unimportant matter, because the contest of the proletariat...
Shipbuilders engaged in industry essential to the war's prosecution must learn that laying down their work to bleed the Government for their own selfish benefit is little short of treason. No punishment is too severe for such men. If they cannot freely put forth their best, they may be met by a stern curtailment of their liberty. This much is certain, the time for barter with unionism has long passed...
...most important thing that the country can learn at this time touching the world situation is the fact, the actual fact, the stern fact, that we are engaged in war. We are so far removed from the conflict, there is so little suffering about us, so little that speaks of war, that the mind can hardly grasp the fact that the Nation is mobilizing with tremendous rapidity its entire strength for the supreme effort ahead of it, and that those in authority realize that this strength in the fullest is going to be needed. The people...
...experience we have learned that in time of peace it is well to prepare for war. Let us not have to learn by our own mistakes that in time of war we should prepare for peace as well...
...richer the community in intellectual power, in material strength, and in physical well-being. We have striven to broaden our methods of admission as far as possible without lowering the standard. In this we have been partially successful, but, no doubt, not perfectly so; and we hope to learn to do better by experience, constant effort and openness of mind. It is well that the war should direct increased attention to these questions, should provoke us to take our bearings afresh, and consider our courses anew; but the conditions brought about by our entering the conflict are not the best...