Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exceedingly pleased to see the editorial in this morning's CRIMSON coming out squarely in support of national prohibition during the war. It was with some regret, however, that I observed that the writer saw fit to mention only one of the three great reasons for the enactment of such a measure, namely, the great saving of foodstuffs which would be brought about...
...patriotism, excusing everybody else. Hard feelings would inevitably result if the nation's responsibility should be saddled on volunteers. There is vastly less reason for volunteering to go out to be shot down than for volunteering to pay one's taxes. How we should come out if the financial support of the nation were left on an optional basis, needs no diagram...
Universal service is the only solution of this great democracy's problem. We are in this struggle individually, and not merely to lend the moral support of our Government's name. Every eligible citizen that considers himself a red-blooded man ought to desire to serve his country. At least he should be given an equal chance. Harvard men have endorsed the principle of universal service by their patriotic actions of the last year. They can do an important additional service by preaching their doctrine to all they meet and by using their influence, however small, to force the passage...
...President is very grateful to the students of Harvard University for their pledge of co-operation and support, and asks me to express in this informal way his appreciation of their generous and patriotic proffer of services. Sincerely yours, J. P. TUMULTY Secretary to the President
...controlled absolutely the branch of the Government responsible to the voters up to November, 1916. The consent of the governed has not been, until the recent Jones Bill was passed by Congress and signed by President Wilson, a recognized axiom of government in Porto Rico. In spite of popular support, the Unionist Party, as any other party would have been, was helpless to solve the vital questions affecting Porto Rico--the relations between the island and the United States, the curbing of the omnipotence of corporations, etc., for the simple reason that by the Foraker Act we have been living...