Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...honestly say that he is being forced to do nothing when every day the Government is suggesting ways for everyone to help? Shooting at the Prussians is not the only way of winning the war. Supposing after proper training the whole United States Army should be taken to Europe and should hurl down the German Army and Capture Berlin; would we then return home without a word, satisfied with merely a military victory? Of course...
...very nature, an army is a militaristic and autocratic organization, the consummate ideal of the Hohenzollerns. That is to say, America is perfecting herself in the evil which she wishes to eradicate from Germany. Therefore, if the United States is to sincerely uphold the doctrines set forth by President Wilson in reply to the Pope's peace offer, it cannot be too emphatically impressed on every single man, woman and child that we must keep our ideals constantly before us, least in the excitement of war and the enthusiasm of our ultimate victory we fall into the well from which...
...professor dissenting from the majority opinion respecting the governmental war policy is not thereby disqualified from teaching psychology or comparative literature. The Columbia Faculty, however, take the opposite view and apparently agree with the Imperial German Government that political orthodoxy is the test of intellectual capacity. Indeed one might say that if this affair at Columbia has any value at all, it is to reveal the similarity of ideals and methods between those who shout loudest for the stars and stripes and those whose allegiance is to the Prussian Eagle. ARTHUR K. McCOMB...
...left in the College must put a good team on the field; not simply a winning team, but a clean team, a hard-fighting team, and gentlemen. That is in justification to ourselves, lest men say that the best have gone, and that there are none brave enough to fill the place they left vacant...
...habit of men (who are cursed with memory and imagination) to romanticize over the past, or to idealize the future. That age in which we live is but a barren period set between sparks of brave accomplishment. It would be well, all men say, to have lived when Napoleon lived; and empires were upbuilded in a day; or to live in succeeding centuries, when man will know, and be master of himself...