Word: mexico
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There have been coming reports, no doubt largely exaggerated for dramatic effect, of Americans leaving this country for Mexico, for Canada or Cuba, to avoid the military duty which rests on each citizen as the price of his citizenship. One might be easily tempted, with shallow wisdom, to demand that laws be enacted to prevent these men from seeking in flight the presumably safe but blastingly dishonorable course of the coward...
...might be suggested that if among the American eagle's brood there are such scantily feathered crows as may not bear the eagle's altitude, they could fly to more suitable places than Cuba or Canada. In neither of these two countries is great love fostered for poltroons. And Mexico, with all her sins, places no immoral value on the prime necessity in our scheme of existence of the preservation of human life...
...poor Mexico...
...instructing Harvard men in the science of war. When he was first detailed at the University, our nation was at peace, and few men, even the wisest, thought the possibility more than remote that we should ever get in the German war. We still talked in terms of Mexico, and wondered whether we had an army sufficient to regulate to the law of stability that revolutionary state. As a nation we had no conception of the way a great power must make...
Professor L. S. Rowe, of the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "The Recent Relations Between the United States and Mexico" at the meeting of History 56 in Emerson J this morning at 12 o'clock, and on another subject Saturday. Professor Rowe has recently been on the United States Border Commission and has been in close contact with the Mexican affairs. The lecture is open to all members of the University...