Word: mans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Theodore Roosevelt has sounded the keynote of what should be every American's attitude in the war, when he declared recently that patriotic words are only worth while when they have as their basis patriotic actions. Speech is cheap. An insincere man can often utter as noble words as one of undoubted sincerity. High-sounding verbosity will never defeat Germany, nor will it go far toward arousing others of our nation to action. A single heroic death in France, the simple report, "Killed in action," is far more effective than the words of all the statesmen of America...
...within the power of every man to help his country. Mere declarations of loyalty accomplish nothing; the body and soul must be enlisted to the cause. The time for contentment with "doing your bit" is over. The nation now demands your all. Where formerly some one activity, some little help was regarded enough, today we can be content with nothing less than the utmost from everyone. As a worthy Canadian has pointed out, the term "slacker" has taken on a new meaning. The slacker among us now is the man who, in the slightest way, withholds any bit of energy...
...first time in the history of the war, its campaigns have narrowed down to a duel between two solid units, each commanded by a single man. The Germans no longer have the advantage of having their opponents partially separated; General Foch has all the resources of all the armies ready at his hand...
...obvious patriotism of such a cause, there are several reasons why all right-minded people should put all the money they can spare into Liberty Bonds. To insist on spending it for some thing which one does not really need is to bid against the Government for the man power, the fuel and the raw materials which it so much needs. All our money should be spent for something which is really needed either by the individual or by the Government, in order that all the man power and resources of the country may be employed where they are needed...
...only are the facts we learn in college largely valueless and largely forgotten, but the fact-cramming. Swallow-and-disgorge, tell-me-what-I-told-you method guarantees the repression of independent thought. We cannot expect the College immediately to reform. In default of that, it behooves every Harvard man, even at the expense of his marks, to do a little original thinking of his own about the problems which he must sooner or later face. REXFORD S. TUCKER...