Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seemed to me a useful as it is a patriotic duty to lay before such of them as are interested certain information, which I believe is not generally known at Harvard, which may enable them more intelligently to solve the problem of becoming immediately useful to the nation in its deliberately-formed determination to dispute and defeat, by force of arms, the pretensions of autocratic and irresponsible power...
...great evils (and this ought to include every man who cannot honestly say that the outcome of the war in Europe is a matter of no importance or concern to him, because a dishonest neutrality is morally more reprehensible than war) in such men the desire to serve the nation devotedly and intelligently is very great. It is to the latter then, but not to those who harbor any sentimental illusions about the thing called war, that the following information is commended...
...peace between them in the future, one hopes that an actual test of cowardly qualities between these countries will never take place. But the contemptuous indictment involved in the editorial is not only unnecessary and unwarranted, but is most susceptible to interpretations that would easily lead to resentment and national animosity, especially as it forms a specimen--not a representative one, I hope--of opinion from men who have had the best opportunities of education and may guide the future destinies of the nation...
When last we had intimate and martial dealings with England, George III, King of the House of Hanover, held in his fat and unregal hand the sceptre of that nation. With what ardor our free born Americans despised him, the stupid German lordling! How the hearts of our Revolutionary heroes seethed with contempt of his bigotry and his blindness...
...National service is the vital need of the hour, and Military Training the foundation upon which it must rest. The prime factors of National Service comprehend the industrial and military forces of the nation and are necessarily inter-dependent...