Word: nationality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation, we are often criticized by Europeans, for a sordid sameness of life and institutions. Our cities, they point out, present the same square uninteresting outlines; the talk, in our homes, runs along the same tract of mediocre intellectuality; our youths and men are all alike even down to their gestures and vocabulary. Where, they ask, are our great scientists and statesmen...
Thus the University returns to its anebellum schedule, but it will not and would not return to the "normal." We have sent well-equipped men from our Faculty into many war activities; they have served the nation well. The effect of their teaching will be an essential factor in the new, after war life of Harvard...
...which a student may participate indicates that those responsible for the idea had no faith in the adage "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." Furthermore, the ruling is quite in keeping with the spirit of the times, when apparently the entire nation has gone quite mad on the subject of regulating anything and everything. National Prohibition has passed; various states are trying to introduce into their legislatures bills to prohibit the smoking of cigarettes; the Postal Telegraph Company has been almost regulated out of business; the railroads will be so regulated that...
...show that we have not lost interest in the cause for which so many of our classmates gave their lives. We can show our appreciation of our nation's generosity by loaning our money to the government. It should be unnecessary to add that the Victory Loan is the safest investment in the world...
...appealing for members in the colleges that this opinion has been given support by authorities in most his authorities in most of the colleges where the system was tried out. Among its members, this organization boasts such prominent peace-at-any-price advocates as Oswald G. Villard, of the "Nation" who officiates as chairman, Amos Pinchot, vice-chairman, and Professor Emily G. Balch, of Wellesley. It is hard to reconcile their statement with the facts here, at New Haven, and at the other colleges with which we are most intimately associated. Dean Goodnight's opinion is based solely...