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...Europe and her agony as the woes of another planet, to be scientifically investigated and discussed, but never to be partaken? Who is there who trusts to the Monroe doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over the fireplace, to keep us from the ambitions and intrigues of martial peoples? Who is there who thinks as he thought before, and as previous generations have thought before during all our national life? Who indeed, save a Senator from Wisconsin, and an anarchistic leader, and a well-known newspaper man who is not without influence, who uses the whole power...
...have been relieved of the volunteer system, which is heroic, bombastic, and quite wasteful. In its place we have substituted the draft system, much less inspiring, but quite necessary in this age of specialization. Just as all men of twenty-one to thirty-one have been drafted for our martial armies, so men over thirty-one have been drafted to continue the business of our country. And in like measure boys under twenty-one have been drafted to continue their education, that the class of intelligent men may not be diminished in a future decade...
These statistics show what a prominent part Harvard men took in the War of the Rebellion. For a time, indeed, the College authorities attempted to check the martial enthusiasm, but when it became apparent that the war would be a long and serious one, their opposition was withdrawn...
...peace, when those of Harvard-sons who have passed through the struggle will take up with new hope the work of construction for which they have been trained. In that later time they will gain the fullest rewards of their training; not in this barbaric time, when the most martial nation has exalted its heroes to be almost gods...
...take this as an augury of future, more martial successes. At first when we had entered the war we talked very bravely. Then we got quite frightened and talked very excitedly. Now we have battles to win, and it is to be presumed they will be well...