Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some of those who are at present shouting in our ears that war is inevitable tell us that our country must go into it from motives of humanity. "Remember our murdered citizens," is the cry. Yes, let us throw ourselves into the conflict and avenge the death of these blockade-runners by the sacrifice of a thousand times their number--doubtless the dead will rest easier in their graves. I us retaliate for our loss of ships by offering our entire merchant marine, out of the war-zone as well as in, as food for submarines. Let us paralyze...
...cannot believe that Harvard men would not flock to the standard the moment any definite action was taken. We cannot believe that Mr. Cecil H. Smith and his disciples are ardent pro-Germans. But for the good of the University, the country and the world, let us try to avoid such a hindering spirit, and to put in its place an honest desire to help the country up on its feet, eventually to enforce a lasting peace. PAUL W. INGRAHAM...
...Well, I mention the Harvard Unit because it was about the first, but others are doing nobly, too. Let Harvard serve as a sample. At the outbreak of the war Harvard put down $10,000 to equip and staff the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris. Then, in June, 1915, Harvard took over one of your British base hospitals with thirty-two surgeons and seventy-five nurses. That hospital has been maintained by Harvard folk ever since; they go out and serve for three months at a time. Harvard also sent an expedition to fight typhus in Serbia. Harvard's casualty...
Everyone doubtless knows of the man who burned down his house in order to roast his pig. His problem symbolizes some aspects of our war problem. Let the roasting of the pig stand for the object of a war, let the man stand for the American people, and the house for the American civilization which is a-building. Now let us suppose the man is deliberating whether he will roast the pig, and, if so, whether by setting fire to the house. Similarly, the first question for the American people to settle is, "What are the objects...
...other points emphasized by the Union cannot be discussed here. Let this letter drive home one cardinal truth: that in a democracy, patriotism means thinking for the nation, quite as much as fighting for it; and unless the thinking takes place first, we may expect such consequences as the tragic European war exhibits. CECIL H. SMITH...