Word: morals
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have chosen you to interpret for us to Harvard University our ideals of American harmony, our fervent adherence to cause of right, which the American of today is endeavoring to infuse into international order, and our boundless admiration for the moral grandeur of the United States, which assures the coming of peace among nations...
...outbreak of war he has been particularly active in the work among the young men at the training camps, and has spoken much for the American Red Cross and other war causes. Among his writings are "Saunterings in Europe," Beginning Life," "Friends and Foes of Youth" and "Some Moral and Religious Aspects...
...Eagle realizes, as most thinking Americans realize, that there was no moral obliquity and no anti-Americanism in the fighting Kreisler did at the front against the Czar's troops in the early days of the great war. He was an Austrian subject. He did his duty as he saw it. And if Americans had not much use for Franz Josef, they did not feel their sympathies going out very strongly to the Emperor Nicholas...
...that their permanent positions had been broken into on a short front. But the interpretation accorded this admission in the newspapers is bound to have a greater effect on public opinion, and one of the most representative of these, the Lokal Anzeiger, actually attempts to portray it as a moral victory for the Germans. "The British attempt to break through," it writes, "collapsed entirely in the face of the extraordinary bravery of our troops. It went no farther than the initial success. . . . . The enemy will not succeed by this abortive attack in diverting our attention from Flanders, where...
...line who will win this war. It is you who stay at home, sacrificing comforts and money to feed and clothe us. We are under your orders, and just as long as you hang on, we will fight as well as we know how. But remember, all our support, moral and physical, comes from those who remain behind in the States. Try to impress all this on the young hopefuls in whose brains you are endeavoring to plant the seeds of English literature...