Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This country will probably soon be at war with Germany. If a war be necessary to uphold the recognized rights of our nation, as it now seems to be, thinking men--and that includes undergraduates--have a difficult but a great duty to perform; that is, to preserve reason and calm judgment when the passions of the unthinking are sweeping them away; it is to remember throughout a conflict its true cause and not to permit childish credulity and unreasoning desire to blind the nation into waging a barbaric war of hate and revenge, blood-lust and conquest...
...number of eager raw recruits. Harvard men must forget about the sacrifice entailed during the next few months, and realize that the greater amount of serious, concentrated drill and study accomplished at the moment the greater and more valuable will be the service which Harvard can render the Nation in time of danger...
...plan of training has been announced. Surely the universal loyalty which has so often been voiced in the last year will not fall now. The service is for the Nation...
...Yale, with her engineering laboratories and extensive equipments for experiment is prepared for higher grade investigation in both the fields of science and applied science. The opportunities in this field are unlimited. If the nation and its universities could learn how much co-operation between the industries and laboratories would mean, there would be a revolution of incalculable value to science, to business, and to government...
...strong country in the industrial as well as the martial world. We must conserve more and more of our natural resources and we must apply all our scientific knowledge to get the maximum output with minimum labor fatigue. Our universities can be the first to promote this nation-wide movement. Yale can be a leader of industrial preparedness just as it has been among the foremost in military preparedness. The combination of the two is the only true national service...