Word: minds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This affects the daily welfare of over two thousand Harvard men now in service. Will not Harvard men here in Cambridge give liberally with this in mind? The American Library Association has the management of all the work; sites are already set aside for the buildings, and the architects' plans are complete so that work can begin the moment the money is in hand...
...obvious that one may not measure to the year and the day the age of an individual's mind. Some men of nineteen may be more fit to undertake the military life than some boys of twenty-three. But as an average the younger man, the boy, should not be called to arms...
...training which Harvard gives has never been primarily the soldiers training, save as all education trains for service and sacrifice. It has been a liberal broadening of mind which should make Harvard men leaders of peace, of science, and culture. That Harvard men should, when confronted with the cold fact of war be able to turn from those careers which they had planned to the new and urgent service is a tribute to the general abilities which they have attained. It is not a tribute to any unusually fierce or bellicose qualities of mind...
According to the latest reports New England has so far subscribed not much more than sixty per cent of her estimated contribution to the national loan. Of course in such matters it is small use to blame anybody, since the only people who mind are those who have done their share. Those that haven't won't, not for the words of editors, nor for the words of bankers, nor for the words of a Cicero in the mouth of a Demosthenes inspired by a Delphic oracle and addressed to the salvation of his country...
...best of military ideas instilled into their successors and the men who have worked under them. A schedule of training is to be followed which can do nothing but assure to every man a completely satisfactory training. The departure of these regular army officers must bring home to every mind the fact that there is a singular shortage of such men in the United States. And with this the corollary that an enormous number must soon be found or made, if our country is to put her utmost into this war, and we earnestly believe she is. Where...