Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...until necessity forces the nation, Americans are still chary of binding themselves to distant and more turbulent nations across the seas. We will not freely give up our long history of single action...
...finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly painting in the Metropolitan Museum. She was simply a innocent and gallant girl who said her prayers and did her duty even when it called on her to rescue a nation and die an abominable death. Up to this point, Mme. Farrar's creation is sound and historically accurate. And altogether, it may be said that most of the shocking details of the film may be laid on the adapter and not on the star...
...last decade there has been a steadily deepening conviction that dead languages are out of place in a living civilization. Public opinion has demanded that education should be more practical, that it should train men for increased usefulness in the nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century...
...system of citizen military education and training similar to the systems of Switzerland and Australia which will train every able-bodied male in the country, yet without making them a permanent burden upon the finances of the nation or taking them from their ordinary occupations or professions, is vital...
...Russell, "Portraits of the Seventies"; Paul Sabatier, "A Frenchman's Thoughts on the War"; George Santayana, "Egotism in German Philosophy"; George Sorel, "Reflections on Violence"; Rabindranath Tagore, "Chitra," "Songs of Kabir" and "The Post Office"; Sidney Whitman, "Things I Remember"; P. Wilstach, "Mount Vernon, Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine"; C. D. Winslow, "With the French Flying Corps...