Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is one thing to remember. The leaders of a nation cannot be educated in a day. Harvard and especially the professional schools have done a great work in the past in the training of men who have shown their ability to assume the burdens of the highest responsibility...
...other words, the nation will be crying for men with professional training. On this account, it is for the Senior of 1918 to consider his duty most carefully. He must bear in mind the chances of service, and it is most sincerely to be hoped that he will not impatiently reach for the sword but consider carefully the fields of commerce, law, and medicine...
...should be pleased with success upon an eight mile front. But this is not an eight mile war. We will not jubilate over victory nor be disheartened by reverses, until the full completion of our purpose as a nation, and the accomplishment of the appointed ends...
Most remarkable, though least remarked, of the things which have been done is an overturning of our entire conception of the part which our nation is to play in the politics of the world. Who is there now who thinks that the greatest good which might come to us from this war is great prosperity? Who is there who conceives of Europe and her agony as the woes of another planet, to be scientifically investigated and discussed, but never to be partaken? Who is there who trusts to the Monroe doctrine the wide sea, and the inherited flintlock over...
...gone up to still those who do not believe as the nation believes. If the thought of such men is ill, then let their thought be obliterated, for we have enough of sickly thought. If the thought of such men is irreconcilable from the eternal desire of egoism to be individual, then let their thought be obliterated, for we have enough of egoisms which are mad with the consciousness of themselves. But if the thought of such men is strong and clear, however strange it may seem to us, let us not dare, for the very fear of truth that...