Word: means
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Furthermore, you are preparing for a still greater work. Victory will mean nothing unless the victors are ready to make use of it. In a great military operation, large reserves are necessary to exploit a success. In the war itself there is need of vast reserves of energy and of intelligence to insure, after the victory, the resumption and continuation and expansion of national activity. In every walk of life there will be empty places everywhere there will be need of trained and developed men to fill those empty places, immediately and effectively. Every one of you, in the special...
...Freshman smoker of the year, to be held in the Living Room of the Union tonight at 8 o'clock. Both will address the class on some subject connected with the war, Lieutenant Morize devoting his speech to an attempt to bring a realization of what the struggle must mean to American college...
...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...
...college education is only too often misunderstood by the undergraduate to mean the bare knowledge of the contents of the books that are read and the assimilation of the facts that are presented in the class room. Others, now in the minority, take the opposite view that the things to be sought at college lie totally without the class room...
...strength in a democracy and one which should not be tossed aside lightly. If the party system is a bad thing in time of war, it is just as pernicious in time of peace. The character of candidates ought to be a consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will be American. They will be composed of one big plank--Victory, And yet there are many ways of obtaining this national goal. Destroy the parties and you kill all criticism, the right kind of which is essential even in a crisis...