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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the friendly relations existing between this country and China and the manifold cordial bonds assuring peace between them in the future, one hopes that an actual test of cowardly qualities between these countries will never take place. But the contemptuous indictment involved in the editorial is not only unnecessary and unwarranted, but is most susceptible to interpretations that would easily lead to resentment and national animosity, especially as it forms a specimen--not a representative one, I hope--of opinion from men who have had the best opportunities of education and may guide the future destinies...
...student, and the voice of the tocsin to the first class arose simultaneously and at once. He was a hero who attended nine o'clock classes thrice a week. He was a demi-god who managed to get his breakfast beforehand. Most men never knew that the dawn bestirs itself more than three hours before noon. Only botanists and late wassalers had witnessed the phenomenon of dew upon the grass...
...more than fifty years ago that Philip Nolan shouted: "Damn the United States! I wish I may never hear of the United States again!" Today, as in the days of the Civil War, this sort of blasphemy is scarce, yet a new feeling has come into vogue, quite as dangerous as that of the "man without a country," and far more widespread...
...care" attitude of the citizen who has never bothered to learn the national anthem, who looks on the flag merely as a holiday banner. Last Saturday the men in the Boston crowds who uncovered as the colors passed were exceptional. Hardly a voice was raised in protest against the hundreds who did not. Stupidly good-natured and lackadasical, they were there to see the glitter and color, to hear the bands play, and, quite naturally, to stare at Marshal Joffre. And in the midst of all the spirit of celebration, to the thousands who lined the streets the flag seemed...
...asked by President McKinley to go as American ambassador to London. While in England he was adopted by the inner circle of the British bar and made a "bencher", or member of the governing body of the Middle Empire, a rank of respect never conferred on a foreigner in England since...