Word: national
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intelligence of the nation cannot be raised, we cannot expect wise action on the part of the whole people in the complicated problems of modern democratic life, if their schooling is meagre formal, and sterile. At present, the vast majority of the children of this country receive less than six years of schooling, and what they receive is often not well ordered or given by effective, modern methods...
...fame and outward aspect. But my sons alone know my heart. Not from narrow confines do my sons come to me. They make their way from the East, where I have grown from small beginnings nearly three centuries ago, side by side with the growth of a great nation and as an integral part of its faith and striving. They make their way from the West, where vigorous American manhood, with its face to the setting sun, hewed out an empire and established the fighting spirit of truth throughout a great land. They come to me from the South...
King George has sent to the University a personal communication praising the work of the Harvard Hospital Unit which served with the British Army throughout the war, and expressing the lively gratitude of the British Army and the British Nation for what was done by the physicians and nurses of the Unit...
...Nursing Sisters before the first year of the war was ended, until the conclusion of hostilities, was marked by the highest devotion and by the perfection of medical and nursing skill. Their record can never be forgotten, or remembered without lively gratitude, by the British Army and the British Nation. GEORGE...
...parts," perhaps the greatest misfortune derived from the non-ratification of the peace-treaty has seemed neglected. President Wilson has refused to lift the dry-ban yoke from the necks of a husky nation. The failure of the treaty prolongs war and thirst. Just at the time when people are looking forward to a different and more liberal order of things has the Senate so cynically proved to us that the sacrifices of the last two years have been in vain. Little did the poor unsuspecting public dream that the partisans of party politics would carry matters so far. Little...