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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is nothing so bad for a country as war and what follows it. We learned that lesson in the Civil War. The enemy got ahead of us there. Do not let us repeat the mistake...
...less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...
WASHINGTON, D. C., FEB. 5, 1917.--Replying to your telegram of the 4th, the Government in the present crisis should receive the hearty support of every citizen, regardless of party or prejudice. Harvard has always been foremost in improving its patriotism by deeds. Let the University maintain the record of the past through indicating the willingness of its student body to serve in any capacity which may be required and to that end opening facilities for the enrolment of volunteers prepared to enlist on the President's call...
...blood humor. It came as manna in our wilderness of "shows." The play for some moments seems about to trail off into the ordinary ruck of "he be-friends, she loves, they marry" playlets, but the characters meant more to the author than did gentle stage tradition, so she let them work out their salvation. The result was a sincere little play which escaped the obvious by being true...
America is considering the proposal of an international league to be organized at the close of the great war; let us assume, for a moment, that America has decided to make this proposal. Will her proposal bear more weight with foreign powers because she is militarily weak? Foreign diplomats will construe our proposal as follows: "We do not want to fight, and besides, we are weak; let us have perpetual peace." And their construction will be correct, for although Mr. Wilson may desire world peace for its own sake, the American people, if it proposes world peace, will...