Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When as officers the students of the Corps get out on the battle line, what opinion their instructor had of their aptitude or cleverness will be of small moment. The thing that will matter then is whether they can solve quickly and soundly "small problems for infantry," and great ones when the need shall come...
...halts our Congress? It cannot be ignorant of the world's dire lack of foodstuffs. It cannot be indifferent to the welfare of those great armies which will be formed. It should know, if it does not know, the sentiment of the people, which, laying aside its former diversified opinion, demands as insistently as it demanded universal service that the government take measures without delay for the saving of our great, but all to scanty, resources...
...undergraduates of Harvard, as of other colleges, with sensibility which is noteworthy have arrived at the opinion that the necessary is inevitable. That is a credit to the sound intelligence of the current college generation. But the undergraduate can accomplish little in actuality...
There is no more influential non-political group of men of equal size in our country than Harvard men. They wield as individuals and as a body great influence over the public opinion of their community...
...need has not been met. Have our graduates done their part in the shaping of opinion? The College which nurtured them expects them, not in bigotry, not in panic, but judiciously and unemotionally, to see to it that our strength is conserved; to see to it that this thing is done...