Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...coal directly saved as a very powerful argument in support of the plan. Its strength must be in indirect saving, such as lightening late traffic on the Subway, and making more feasible an earlier closing. Neither does the University stand alone. It would be part of a nation-wide effort to economize; and it is not improbable that many other universities and colleges would take similar action. Most important of all, it would be a direct bit of co-operation with Fuel Administrator Storrow and his policy of saving by early stopping of the entire State's activities...
...whole world were written by Teuton authors. Although the committee does not prevent men from studying these, yet it discourages younger scholars from reaching this store of knowledge. In the second place, men who know German are a military necessity now and will be of great benefit to the nation in the years after war. North Dakota, however, is carried away by hate to destroy what is more an advantage than a hindrance. Opposition to the Hun is turned in the wrong direction when it checks reasonable education and changes culture to Kultur...
...third need of the present day, according to Mr. Eddy, is a good, old-fashioned, whole-souled devotion. "Nothing can undermine the character of a nation more than emphasis on living," he concluded. "Be willing to devote your lives to the cause. Above all, don't be unmoved, don't be 'fed up' on the war. If your soul is not daily torn apart by this war, it is to your damnation...
Since the United States has pledged itself to make the world safe for democracy, it behooves the nation to assure a democracy at home. War is bringing and will bring equal burdens to the men and to the women of the United States. It is only right, it is only just that the women have a voice in the momentous decisions that will affect them just as much...
...present administration has made innumerable calls upon the women as workers in the factories and the fields, and as conservers of the national food supply. Through the passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment, the Government has made that call more effective. Of course the women would have rendered patriotic aid during the present crisis, regardless of the fate of their enfranchisement. They always have done their share, they always will. But by declaring itself for suffrage, the administration has removed a feeling of irritation and discontent, and has there-by rendered American women more capable and more willing...