Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unfortunately the exceptional student who knows definitely whether Germany has the legal right to sink American ships should diplomatic relations be severed between the United States and that country. Only a very few have a clear idea of the historical facts which point to the reasons for the nation's present crisis. The habit of taking an intelligent interest in national questions must first be acquired by the young men in our colleges. Such a habit, which is all important for the progress of any nation, is at present nonexistent in America. Habits of any character are seldom formed...
...Sobeit a nation that trains her sons...
...those who love peace better than their souls. The "verge of war" is near us. No complaints of what might have been done in the past, no petty cavilling about the present will suffice us now. We must look only to the future, trusting in those who rule the nation to find the correct solution--whether it be peace...
...latest crisis in our nation's delicate and uncertain diplomatic situation comes for the most part unexpectedly to the majority of college men. The United States has been in such positions before during the long period of the great war, and each time the bellicose have called for battle, and the pacific have prayed for peace. Each time our government has avoided the conflict with what measure of honor only the future can tell. And now we are face to face with another situation, more serious than the others it would seem. But, in reality this newest peril presages...
...question of universal military service is now before the nation; and with it the question whether the inauguration of universal service in America at this time will hinder the proposed movement toward world peace. Foreign nations would far more readily accept the American proposal if it were offered by a nation avowedly strong than if it were offered by a weak nation craving refuge from the fear of threatened war. Opponents of universal service may claim that America derives sufficient power from her voluntary system, but this claim would bear her little weight with foreign powers, the more important...