Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That foolish optimism has vanished. We see that the people are not subscribing in large amounts for the loan. It is still a capitalist's investment. For that reason, if the loan does not fail financially, it will fail morally, being not an expression of national confidence and unity, but simply a token of our abundant capital...
...article to the Daily Princetonian; President Hibben, of Princeton, urges men who are prevented by one reason or another from entering the service of the Government, to view the national situation calmly and not allow the present military propaganda to urge them into work for which they are not adapted. President Hibben believes that there are many reasons to justify men holding steadily to their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or by taking up other non-military work...
...would ask an opportunity to say a personal word concerning a large number of students who are prevented by one reason or another from entering the military or naval branches of Government service. Age, physical disqualifications--often of a minor nature--the wishes of parents, the special obligations of some students to their parents the lack of an imperative call on such men for patriotic service--all these reasons fully justify many men in holding steadily to their present tasks, whether by remaining in the university or taking up other non-military work. I think we all must realize that...
...difficult when an individualistic and independent college is suddenly changed into a military camp to change at the same time the characteristics of its individualistic and independent students. Harvard men are notably unapt to bow without reason to constituted authority; in that differing not vastly from other college men, or from non-college men of the younger successful class, for that matter...
...Such a system as now exists in the Argentina Republic can be worked in the United States. My country is in a thousand ways exactly similar to this, and I see no reason why the same general laws that are of use there should not be workable here. Argentina, like the United States today, was faced with the problem of getting volunteers to enlist in the army. She had the regular army and militia system now prevailing in the United States...