Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...advocates of the proposed system of universal military training realize that not one of our foreign wars was undertaken in self-defence, and that our country has never been attacked, even when its navy was almost a minus quantity? Again, shall we disregard the testimony of such military experts as General Erasmus Weaver, who has assured the House Committee on Military Affairs that our coast defences are inferior to none in the world, or shall we lose eight of our system of mines, submarines and fortifications, which Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt declares make "a navy almost...
Again, every one who inquires impartially into the fundamental causes underlying modern wars is struck by the fact that in almost every case a nation declares hostilities, not in self-defence or to ward off invasion, but in the secret interest of powerful and unscrupulous commercial, manufacturing and financial combinations, who, for their own selfish purposes, play upon the public's sense of fear, patriotism or national pride. "National honor" and "manifest destiny" represent hackneyed--though, alas, still potent--catch-words employed in this connection. What assurance has the American people that a vast and efficient military establishment will...
...afflictions. All but six stated they had completely recovered from their injuries. None was reported seriously incapacitated from their participation in the game. The valuation placed on the personal benefits received from the game varied greatly although increased physical development headed the list. Among the other benefits derived were: self-control, rapid judgment, wide acquaintance-ship, determination and courage...
...great stretch of imagination is required to picture effects on the college game--the flow of players from university to professional elevens, and all the accruing scandal and innuendo, not to mention other features which will readily occur to the average follower of college sports. How long would any self-respecting university stand such a condition? How long would it be before in righteous wrath intercollegiate football at many of our institutions would be torn up root and branch and cast into the scrap heap? The future of football as a sport has suddenly assumed a portentous aspect...
...deceptive. Instead of being Harvard's glory, the monument is a "memorial to hr shame" and likewise "an insult to God," all because "it makes no distinction between the cause of the Allies and the cause of Germany." Harvard's mistake, it seems, is in honoring the valor and self-sacrifice of her sons as Harvard men only and without drawing the line between valor that was pro-Ally and valor and devotion merely pro-German...