Word: performance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this time the album will form for every member of the graduating class an especially precious reminder of his college years. By the immediate service which our young men are called on to perform, without dallying and without evasion, many members of the class will meet the briefer and the more glorious end of life. It is well that their classmates shall not forget them...
...surpassing zeal some men have gone too far. It is well enough to say that the earth goes hungry, and that all our resources are needed to feed it. It is well enough to awake the nation to the duty which it must perform. But it is going beyond necessity or reason to tell in dismal words of famine stalking abroad, and of the collapse of most of our civilization through the lack of food. Some Government officials whose word bears weight, and who should know better, from a too strong imagination have done so. There is no need...
...done, however, so long as the American public remains apathetic to the shipping problem. Obsolete restrictive legislation must be repealed and friendly laws substituted; the accomplishment of this will come only from an enlightened public opinion. It is in the formation of this opinion that College men can perform a valuable and truly patriotic service because our centres of learning must be well-springs of correct opinion...
...course the visit of the Frenchmen has far greater significance and value than that of the actual military service they will perform. It is only one of the great many signs that Harvard is beginning to recognize the debt which al America owes to France. The two countries, after a century and a half, are once, more allies in a just cause. At that time France helped us more than we can realize, with men and money with Rochambeau, d'Estaing, and Lafayette. In this war we have been helping France, too, if not so generally at least as devotedly...
Compulsion intelligently applied in a good cause is a blessing. For example, a youth of 19, with a normal desire to perform his duties as a citizen, finds the incentive toward service in the regular military establishment or in the militia somewhat weaker than the incentive to take his ease, avoiding all discipline. The country's need that he shall know how to defend it is not brought to his attention. If, however, there were a law requiring his service with the colors for a given time at a particular period of his life, he would perform the service...