Word: pointings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...often said that German insults demand retaliation through war, as a point of honor, regardless of consequences. Is this truth or superstition...
...prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems to me to be unintelligent. CECIL H. SMITH...
...Haven last Saturday was of the early season variety and they have continued their ragged work during the past week's practice. Coach Winsor has been driving his players hard in the hopes of defeating Princeton, but though past records are more favorable to the University, present conditions point to an advantage for the Tigers...
...many more still enrolled in some militia organization. Considering these facts, it may be conservatively estimated that fifteen hundred Harvard men are active in the great preparedness movement to give our country adequate military and naval organizations. These figures cannot lie. Harvard is in the van and can justly point with pride to her patriotic showing in this period of national danger...
...opinion expressed by modern social psychologists that organized human intelligence will eventually be able to avert the calamity of war. And I am also of the conviction that, from the point of view of the Western Allies, this war is actually being waged against war. But it must be apparent to all thoughtful people that the precious inheritance of Anglo-Saxon democracy is now at stake; that America must be prepared to fight for it, as she has fought for it before. I believe that universal service is the fairest and most democratic method of preparedness, both military and industrial...