Word: self
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Your pointed editorials on the Harvard Union should arouse the self-sacrificing interest of all members and friends of Harvard University. In the entire University there is not a department more important then the Harvard Union to be recognized and sustained as the great social centre of the University...
...late there have appeared in your paper various communications and unworthy editorial, concerning the summer military camps that were pregnant with the dry rot, which, in the form of self complacency and indifference is secretly consuming the manhood of many dabblers in "idealism...
...broadest aspect the service which must be rendered is one of education, of enlightenment in self-interest. To the masses of the people the great truths that war between the civilized nations of the world is useless, that armaments are a perpetual threat of war, are still unheard...
...communication has yet directly challenged the statement that such policies are a result of a mutual misinterpretation of the needs of national defense, resulting from the failure of international law and political organization to keep pace with the growth of economic and intellectual interdependence. Thus, because we believe the self-interest of every civilized nation coincides with the limitation of armaments and the prevention of war, we are very optimistic as to the possibility of permanent peace provided only the peoples of the nations can be educated as to what their self-interest is; and provided the necessary machinery...
...certain amount of needed training at a military camp? Surely we have not reached that longed for state of civilization where national differences are settled without bloodshed Therefore, until such a time comes, should we not combat war clouds and war itself rather with a well sharpened weapon of self-preparedness than with some untried instrument of the future. G. B. BLAINE...