Word: minds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...willingness to change one's mind on good cause shown is one of the essential qualities of an administrative officer or of a statesman. The original decision was disheartening to the men now in training, its execution would have imposed real hardship upon those not selected for immediate service. But the foundation reason for reserving the order was the need of the army. The national army in a very short time will require the service of all the men from the training camps. It would have been a mistake to return them, over temporarily, to civil life, because...
...Mind full-taught, the Will to weld a plan...
...great gathering place of the nations of the world; the manhood of America gathered there; many homesick, some distressed in mind, all facing issues of life and death and wondering about things they had never wondered about before,--there is an opportunity for army chaplains, for the Y. M. C. A. and for other up building forces, like of which has scarcely ever been seen...
...inferentially. We cannot put the blame for this war either upon Darwin or Nietzsche. When a man is intent upon evil purposes he can quote Scripture to his purpose. The men of cold science may indeed have "inspired" the German aggressors, but it must be noted that the Prussian mind was capable of perverting every utterance and every principle to its purpose. Boston Transcript...
...should be borne in mind, before branding this body as "self-constituted" and "unauthorized", that the nominating committee of the Student Council of any college year, has no real power delegated to it other than the mechanical and impersonal task of printing the ballots, designating the polls, determining the watchers at the polls, and such like detail. As a body it has no further interest in the elections than seeing that sufficient men are nominated for office and the choices of each class are designated. In the event of insufficient petitions being field it may make such additional nominations...