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Among the undergraduate body, the thought of democracy is farcical, Men come to college at the most plastic stage of manhood, when it would seem they ought to be willing to accept a man at his own value--according to that man's ability, his intellectual vigor, his social capacity. Is this the case, or is there not rather a wide gulf between those who live in the little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object...
...that the 1909 board had its similar representation in Henry Sheahan's "Volunteer Poilu." It proceeds with a dramatized vision of the Monthly Sanctum in 1910, from which the spectator is transported in imagination to "somewhere." Here appears the Foreign Legion, and the countless legions of youth and manhood of a free world in every time, with a passionate impersonal voice reciting "for itself and all the young manhood of the world until it is lost in the chaos of the battle, the rendezvous--the rendezvous with death...
...habit of obedience is unhappily too rare among the youth of this country. To this defect in their education may be traced much of the inefficiency and lack of method which too often characterize them in manhood. Our American youth stand in imperative need of military training, which alone may inculcate lessons of obedience, self-control, discipline, initiative and efficiency in teamwork...
Today is the chance for you. No Self-interest, no shuffling of the demands of conscience, no sophistry about the holiness of peace, should shake you. Be true to your manhood, to your education, to your youth. The time is now. In three months it may be too late...
...President Wilson spoke as he has never spoken before for the conscience and manhood of the American people when on Saturday, February 3, he solemnly announced to Congress that 'this Government has no alternative consistent with the dignity and honor of the United States' but to sever diplomatic relations with Germany...