Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the Navy Department plans to establish a series of naval courses at the University adds one more opportunity for college men to show themselves ready to respond to the call of the times. The government is now fully awake to the imperative need for the nation so to prepare itself that it shall be capable to defend its people at all times from the ravages of an unexpected enemy...
...nation stands for liberty, indeed, and is only too glad to harbor the distressed peoples that have flocked to her shores. But it is our right when we extend them the privileges of our democracy to ask that they become in return true and loyal Americans. We are not willing to make the United States a hot-house for all the seeds of foreign discontent, as it has occasionally seemed in danger of becoming...
...only was the opinion of the College occasionally listened to in the United States, but even abroad it was taken into consideration as representative of one phase of the best opinion in America. Naturally I am not suggesting that Harvard undergraduates can have any great effect upon important national decisions, but I do most seriously suggest that the opinion of Harvard College does count--and however small its influence may be, it should not be withheld, especially with conditions as they are now. "Politics are for the politicians," said a certain Harvard professor some years ago. That day has passed...
...word more on the original subject of this communication. How can we truly feel sorry for a nation which, after signing the armistice, declares. "If the Allied peace terms force us too far, we can be avenged within a year by means of Bolshevism."? E. A. WHITNEY...
George Arliss, as the father, gives us a remarkably distinguished picture of the British spirit which made it possible for England to go on building more ships and munitions, and sending millions of here sons into battle, when the flower of the nation had died. Mrs. Arliss affords her husband able support, and Olive Tell, as the old sweetheart, is pleasant to look upon...