Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have 700,000 men in France, with prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have learned something of the spirit of sacrifice. The whole nation is recovering from the hysteria and feverish but often misdirected energy of the last year...
Harvard undergraduates have not been slow to realize the war's obligations. Our enrolment has shrunk to one-half its normal figure. Our student body has fully supported every war cause presented to the nation. There are times, however, when students have seemed to fail their country's demands. The charge of Harvard's indifference is largely exaggerated, but it is not entirely unfounded. A glaring example of it is afforded in the failure of the University to contribute properly to the second Red Cross Fund...
Drafting labor is theoretically as sound as drafting an army. Practically it meets with the overwhelming opposition of the nation's entire public opinion. It is for this reason that the Government has diverted labor into more essential channels by means of the military draft, a method devoid of the repulsiveness of more direct labor compulsion and yet equally effective in practice. In threatening immediate military service for those not employed in essential industry, a real incentive is supplied toward securing a more perfect war organization. This measure means the elimination of idlers of all types. It recognizes that while...
...humanitarian work carried on among us by the American Red Cross and so worthily directed by you has earned the acclaim of the entire Italian nation. In succoring the wounded at our front and in mitigating the sufferings of citizens driven from their homes by the enemy's invasion the American Red Cross has earned everlasting gratitude and has strengthened still more the solid basis of the trusting and cordial friendship between the two countries...
Loafing is now a crime. In three states, West Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey the workless man is no longer tolerated. The movement to suppress idleness has officially begun, and should and will spread over the nation...