Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...years to come, will be powers in their own countries. They burn with a deep love for their homeland. Their impressions of America and Americans, to a great degree, are acquired here on the campus. We owe it to ourselves, to the University and to the nation, to meet and to know these students who are virtually our guests. We owe it to ourselves, chiefly because we can learn much from them that will broaden our sympathies and understanding. The Pennsylvanian...
...latter contains such a great mass of cosmopolitan and representative students that the closeness of Columbia's straw-vote should be considered more seriously as a forecast of the actual result than the large majorities of other Eastern colleges where obvious influences explain the Hughes victories. Whether the nation's decision leases the Majority of Harvard men or the majority of Columbia men will actually make little difference. The important and most encouraging feature of the 1916 compaign has been the increased and active interest in American politics exhibited by the college men of the country...
...that recent and remarkable statement by Mr. Hughes to this effect: "My conception of the Presidency differs absolutely from that of Mr. Wilson. I look upon the President as the administrative head of the government. He looks upon the President as primarily the political leader and lawmaker of the nation." And they say Mr. Hughes means what he says...
...that they are in America. The present war is not exactly a holy war. For every man who goes in it that the civilization of the world should be saved, there are a score who go in because they like the sound of imperialism, or because they hate another nation, or because they were drafted. Among those who go in for the finer motives and voluntarily lay down their lives for reasons that are the farthest removed from all material considerations, Americans, of "material" America, are not without their glory...
...that no Republican (or Democratic) administration would have considered right in times of general peace, but--and here is the difference--in critical times of war, no Republican administration would have dreamed of delaying it and decrying it for two years, at the cost of self-respect and the nation's respect. While, therefore, there exists a danger of retaining in power a party with this record of error and liable to this kind of error, the Preparedness issue can hardly be called definitely settled...