Word: southernism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quotes about ROTC in Janet Tassel's "The 30 Years War: Cultural conservatives struggle with the Harvard they love." The first was from Undergraduate Council President Noah Z. Seton '00: "ROTC being diminished on campuses means that the higher level officials in the military come from the academies or southern schools; as a result there isn't that liberalizing force in the military." The second is from Weatherhead University Professor Samuel P. Huntington: "I absolutely favored the retention of ROTC, and I still think it should be here.... [It] is highly desirable for the military. One of the reasons...
...Harvard can defame the academies and "southern schools," but do any of us truly understand what kind of self-sacrifice goes on at these places, what kind of training cadets go through, how well-prepared they are to honorably lead soldiers into battle when they graduate? People at Harvard have their cute anti-militarisms and their stereotypes about the bigoted homophobes in military barracks. But they can't erase the fact that the men and women in the armed services hold their lives out to us each and every day and say "here, this is for you and your freedom...
...defend his country's ideals. He'll know a lot more about honorable sacrifice and leadership than I or those who defame his profession ever will. If we have a war again, Harvard will be quick to agree. We'll all be quite willing to see our academy and "southern school" inferiors off to the front lines...
Speaking in his characteristic Southern drawl, Graham said that today's technology cannot solve humanity's biggest problems: evil, suffering and death. He urged students of all faiths, instead of turning to technology, to turn...
Indonesia controls the Strait of Malacca. It is the great southern bulwark against the rising Chinese challenge. It has the largest population in the Muslim world and practices a tolerant Islam that we hope will influence its more militant co-religionists...