Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...school of education that will be established after the war, care must be taken to give instruction in facts and allow individual opinion to follow its natural bent. To attempt a whole sale direction of the thoughts and reasoning power of the young is to create a nation of Germans, who think in platoons and whose highest ideal in personal conduct does not rise above blind obedience to their superior officers...
...adequately to represent the University requires a great deal of time from both the players and the coaches. Can this time be spared from our ever increasing efforts to win the war? Most obviously it cannot. To ask it of the men would not only be unfair to the Nation which urgently needs them as officers in the shortest time that they can prepare for duty, but it would be unjust to the men themselves who are being tried by a competitive test which requires all of their mental and physical energy to assure success to themselves...
...have realized and accepted the responsibility which rests upon them as the officer material for the military forces of the Nation. Nowhere has this fact been shown more plainly than in the small number of men who have responded to the call for football candidates. At Yale the total number who came out was nine--not men enough for one team, not to mention the necessary sub-elevens. In other colleges this same scarcity of men for major athletics has been constantly experienced...
Since the existence of football as a University enterprise is not compatable with the best interests of the Nation during the present crisis, let us drown our regrets and, after the Kaiser has been securely caged, we will again take up successfully our yearly task of taming the Tiger and the Bulldog...
...wondered but a moment, and then I knew, I knew the same uproar was sounding in every ear from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Niagara to the Gulf, and that it proclaimed the first rounded twelve-month of our Nation's share in the war for civilization. I knew it was our notice to the world that all we had done in this thrice-busiest year of our Nation's life is but a beginning of what we shall do. It was Paul Jones's cry from the deck of the Bonhomme Richard, magnified by steam...