Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...upon the emancipation of slaves by declaration, he did it as a military measure, to hinder the effective use the South was making of black labor in auxiliary departments of warfare. Seward opposed the proclamation, saying that the world would regard it as the last cry of a defeated nation. Lincoln accepted the criticism in part, deciding to defer the issuing of the problamation until after a victory. His opportunity came at Antietam, and in September, 1862, the proclamation was issued...
...connecting the College Yard and playing fields of Harvard, be an every present reminder to students passing over it of loyalty to country and alma mater, and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood, developed by study and play on the banks of this river, to the nation and its needs...
...social condition. Indeed it is a significant fact that our economists frequently have to go to European countries for statistical evidence. This they must then attempt to apply to American conditions,-a task which will become more difficult, if the United States succeeds in remaining the only first class nation not devastated by war. At present most economic data in this country is collected by government bureaus, which, as Professor Bullock points out, are always liable to political influences. Particularly do those more fundamental fields of study which do not yield immediate "practical" results need the attention of private investigators...
...letter ends with the statement that "we know as certainly as we know anything that the language of big guns alone is able to command respect for any nation." Does Germany, the country of big guns, command the respect of the world? It was not so long ago that an even more cynical militarist, Napoleon, made a similar statement, "God is on the side of the heaviest artillery...
Certainly no problem is of greater importance to the University. For a national character means greater influence upon the nation's thought and affairs as well as a broader atmosphere in the College itself. And the raised tuition fee has added to the difficulties to be solved...