Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yesterday afternoon. The possibility for runners is unlimited. The weather is doing all it can for hockey. Every dormitory and hall should have its team in each one of these sports, Every man a player: That is the only way to build a successful army or a great nation...
...nation grieves at the death of Theodore Roosevelt and the world sympathizes; but the loss comes home with particular force to the Harvard men, because he was a great son of Alma Mater and a brother to two generations of students and graduates. No man in the United States has so fully shown forth in his character, life, and achievements that individual and fearless spirit which Harvard University aims to foster. He was a graduate of many colleges--a law student at Columbia, honored with degrees by a host of universities in many lands, and well educated in the graduate...
Above all, Roosevelt carried with him through life the principles and standards which Harvard men are expected to make their guides. It is impossible to measure the enormous effect upon public life of a man who was for years the foremost in the nation, on the honor of public service. He smashed the conventional ways of thinking and doing, he ignored the maxims of the professional politician, he thought that nations could be carried on like families, with consideration for others, with safeguard of the interests of posterity, with honesty and openness of dealing...
...also in his love of and belief in his College! Four other Roosevelts have followed him in the direct line into the records of Harvard University--just as four stars have appeared upon the family service flag! He loved Harvard, recognized his indebtedness to Harvard and throughout the nation and the world, caused the name of Harvard to be known as the first proving ground of a great knight...
...connection with the proposed plan of universal military service there arises the dual question of principle and detail which must be satisfactorily solved before we venture farther into so uncertain a project. Among those pacifists who make it a point to quash every scheme of national defense which savors of compulsion or armament, whether or not such a course be in fact an expedient one, no proposal concerning military service will ever enjoy widespread support. We should remember, however, that so long as the possibility of war in the future exists, no matter how pleasing the prospect or how buoyant...