Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requested of President Lowell that, inasmuch as some modification of the penalty system was critically urgent, he should suggest some modification that would be more acceptable to the Faculty than that emanating from the Council. The interviews and correspondence which followed must be passed over, but suffice it to say that at length two definite innovations in the oral exam. system were commended by President Lowell, endorsed by the Student Council, and in the belief of the negotiators at least, approved by the French and German Departments...
...pardoned for a reference to the United States and Canada). All law and order, all national and international equilibrium, are ultimately based upon arms, proceeds Mr. Militarist. One enthusiastic "Amateur Soldier" even suggests that government is merely a matter of brute force. Others are frequently heard to say that though perhaps force is not always the most reasonable or satisfactory arbiter of international disputes, yet is it the only ultimate one. Arbitrations and treaties are all very well, but some questions must be fought out to be settled finally. (Perhaps here again he would point to Europe--as an example...
...this has a certain air of manly, or brute, valor, with a generous admixture of "Might makes right." But needless to say, most of us believe that government is not based solely on force, and that there is another arbiter than arms which is far more potent, not only to settle disputes, but to keep them settled. Perhaps it may be called, by way of ellipsis, public opinion. Even war has its rules. If force is to decide the matter, why not fight it out, by fair means or foul, till the weaker side cries for mercy? If resort...
...long run promote a just peace, the only peace we wish, the only peace that lasts. Then let us not waste our time learning how to destroy when we might be learning how to conserve. War is made by men and must be unmade by men. Let us not say, in case war comes we should all be ready to meet it, but rather set our energies to making war impossible. "Delendum est bellum." W. G. RICE...
...advocates of the military camps say that they also are hopeful, but that in the meantime we must be practical, we must face the situation as we find it. Ability to build a pontoon bridge, to "shoot straight", has a suggestion of practicality which it is hard to overcome. But one clear-sighted diplomat, one President Wilson, is of more practical worth for the actual preservation of peace than all our present navies and soldiers combined. As one correspondent has said, it is the voter who must ultimately decide this question, who must understand his own interests well enough...