Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this a time for any of us to attempt to excuse ourselves for refusing to do our duty by pointing to others who are not doing their duty. The fact that someone else is a scoundrel and a slacker is the poorest kind of a reason why I should be a scoundrel or a slacker. In fact, if there are others who are doing less than their share, that is the best reason in the world why I should do more than my share. That is the only way in which we shall ever get enough done to win this...
...explanation has been advanced recently that the reason for the low average of studies here and in other colleges was that students were putting all their time on Military Science and closely allied subjects, to the great detriment of other courses and the students' general standing. This explanation is of doubtful value. We believe that there are very few men in the University, who, from necessity or desire, spend so much time on their military work that their other courses have to suffer. Certainly this is not the intention of the Military or College authorities. If it were, there would...
When we consider all possible advantages accruing from an Eastern advance into Russia and balance them against the inevitable harm which must certainly be its result, we can find no just reason for an American approval of the step. The need of concentrating all our energies upon the Western Front, and the avoidance of steps which may lead to irreparable stains upon the sublimity of our cause must guide our nation in the consideration of this harmful and ill-timed proposal...
...last months of the war we have felt keenly the downfall of Russian resistance. We have good cause to deprecate a policy which not only leaves a whole nation in the chaos of anarchy, but endangers the success of our arms. Yet, despite all this, there exists no reason for our press to pour abuse and call down hatred upon that people. For in what period of history has a single race been face to face, at one and the same time, with a great foreign war and a complete overthrow of all institutions? The Russian situation is indeed unfortunate...
...final settlement. Yet it seems that such an intolerant attitude is the blindness of a superficial patriotism. Only by earnestly watching for a change in the feeling of their people can we come to an understanding. How else is peace ever to be attained? Though we may find reason to doubt the integrity of their government, we may be generous enough to meet them half...