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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...control, to which the attention of the country is now so much directed. Unprecedented wheat prices have appeared in the quotations of the boards of trade, and a great many people, including not a few members of Congress, have not unnaturally blamed the grain speculator for them. Most people look askance at speculation anyhow, and not everyone realizes that speculative prices are commonly a symptom, rather than a cause, of disagreeable facts...
...sleepy forgetfulness must stop! If we are to enter the fight a nation united in one cause we must be conscious of the traditions of the flag, of the battles of the Revolution and the Civil War, which made the United States "safe" until today, "for democracy." We must look up to the flag once more as the standard of our forefathers, as the symbol of the ideals which we, as a democratic nation, stand ready to defend...
Many English university men were killed in the war, but a greater thing than life--freedom--was saved; I look to the American college man now for decisive action," said the Honorable Arthur James Balfour, leader of the British Mission to this country, in a recent interview in the Yale News...
...same problems are to be solved. We are all united by the same culture, the same language, the same ideals. One immediate goal confronts us, to defeat Prussianism. In accomplishing this we must have action immediately for a concerted and deathly blow, and to the American college man I look for coolheaded, but decisive action...
...chosen twentieth should regard themselves as privileged above those of their own age whom the draft passed over. They will be called upon to set a standard in honor, in fortitude, and in strength that other armies, following after them, may look to as an ideal...