Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Knowing this, we must lay our plans so that an adequate system of military preparedness will give us our surest guarantee of peace. A scheme of training which is hastily planned and insufficient may prove worse than nothing. We must trust to the authorities of the nation to guard our honor. We must trust to the authorities of the University to formulate a plan whereby we shall be prepared to defend that honor...
...issue of the Yale News the suggestion was made that Yale can carry on certain scientific experiments for the United States Government. These suggestions are valuable ones and have aroused keen interest in the scientific circles of the University. To do such work would assuredly be a step toward national preparedness and with the cooperation of colleges and Government many problems would be cleared that now confront the nation...
...England had the navy and the actual fighting machine, but unlike Germany she had nothing with which to supply that machine. America until now has been living off her vast natural resources without much regard or thought to the future. If we can manage to become a scientifically economic nation in the time of peace--which means a radical change in the present conditions--then I say we will be on the true road to a sound and lasting preparedness...
...possibility of a diplomatic break with Germany which has existed for the past two years has suddenly become a a serious fact. Our government by submitting in the past to countless acts of violence against our citizens and national honor has tried in every conceivable manner, but in vain, to avert a rupture with the German nation. In the future our actions, whether hostile or not, will be clearly defined and will follow the strong policy inaugurated by the official dismissal of the German Ambassador...
Over a thousand men responded to the call of preparedness last year when the country was in no immediate danger. The Harvard Regiment placed the University in the forefront of the believers in an adequate defense for this country. Now in a time of national peril the numbers of the Harvard Regiment ought to be doubled, and a training unit of two thousand students should once again prove that Harvard recognizes her duty to the country and offers her services to the last man for the protection of the nation. The enrolment in this officers' unit will show that there...