Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Most of those who talk nonchalantly about our entering the war do not seem to have the remotest realization of what that step would mean in every branch of our daily life. An open breach with the Central Powers would almost certainly be followed by a call for the mobilization of a half-million men. The response is not doubtful; twice that number could probably be enlisted within a very short time. But the sudden withdrawal of so large a body from the productive activities of the country would almost surely upset our whole economic organization, all the more...
...contrary it looks clearly, with no false prejudice, at the future." And on February 7: "We are not primarily preparing for war tomorrow; we are not preparing for war against Germany. We are preparing for war when war shall come, from whatsoever source, from those nations which seem our dearest friends, or from those which we ignore." This simple, sensible program would suit even the most pronounced pacifist. No good American wants our nation unprepared...
...Smith sum up the situation when, in speaking for the Union, he says: "What we stand for, above all, is a democratic and enlightened method of deciding whether war or peace is our duty. What we are fighting against are the Prussian methods and spirit which do at least seem to threaten Harvard's ideas of freedom and reason...
...maintained by Harvard folk ever since; they go out and serve for three months at a time. Harvard also sent an expedition to fight typhus in Serbia. Harvard's casualty list in consequence has grown pretty long. Not a bad record for one neutral university, eh? I don't seem to remember your Oxford or Cambridge sending out a medical unit to help us when we were fighting for a moral issue, back in the 'sixties, under Lincoln...
...Fighting" of Saturday, February 17. For two and a half years Europe has been agonized and is still agonized in the most momentous war of all history and yet we still talk of having time to think out what our individual and our national duty is. It would seem that anyone who has so far risen above his own personal affairs or the seriousness of "America at peace" as to contemplate the great issues of the war, must have come to some conclusion about what course should be taken in a critical moment. We cannot believe that the author...