Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cornell Athletic Association decided tonight that all intercollegiate athletics will be canceled if war is declared. The Southern trips, scheduled to begin tomorrow, of the baseball and lacrosse teams and practice for the crew squad during vacation are definitely canceled. All athletic training is abandoned until the nation acts...
...course, there must be opposition. Freedom of speech and thought, differences of opinion on all questions, are to be desired. But there is a limit to all things. A handful of misguided Senators blocked the passage of military measures at Washington, and brought upon themselves the opprobrium of the nation; a handful of misguided undergraduates of the University are screaming for neutrality even now. Some of them are sincere, but blind, in their beliefs; others are simply cowards...
...necessarily support the President and pass Congressman Flood's resolution, and by this action it will be fulfilling the ardent desire of every patriotic citizen. After the formal declaration will come the call for five hundred thousand volunteers, additional recruits for the navy, and then the marshalling of the nation's resources for the successful combat against the Hohenzollern government of Germany...
President Wilson, the leader of this great nation, has stated in clear, manly terms the only honorable stand that this country can take. We congratulate him upon his firm declaration and pledge our heartiest support to following principles so well expressed by him. "We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith...
...Divinity School, the Andover Theological Seminary, the Cambridge Episcopal School, and affiliated theological schools in Cambridge and Boston, will be held in the Common Room of Divinity Hall, this evening, immediately after the close of the Dudleian lecture, to consider how theological students can best serve the nation in the present crisis. Speakers have been secured to present the various lines along which students may be of service, and any questions by men who are considering becoming chaplains, officers, ambulance drivers or Y. M. C. A. workers will be fully answered. Among those who are scheduled to speak are Captain...