Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bear enough fruit unless each stay-at-home contributes his share. There is to be no individual canvass; no strenuous pursuit on the street. We are asked to give what we can at our public library or at any local bank. So it will be an easy thing to go through the week without giving one cent to the fund, and friends will be none the wiser. But it will be proportionately difficult to silence that bothersome conscience, which demands that we help to make spare hours of our soldiers a time in which they can better themselves. There...
...individuals of those nations it has worked a like effect. It has gone further in making men fatalistic, a thing which a nation may never be. Those who had thought their hold on life was the surest, who talked boldly of fundamentals, and eternity, and destiny, now find themselves where all which before seemed sure is unsure, and the very meaning of existence is lacking...
...fine thing for a man to become oblivious to self in pursuing a higher ideal than egoism. It is a terrible thing for a man to become oblivious to self because the whole world appears as nothing stronger than a fantasy...
...military training are open to members of the University--one for army and the other for naval service. It is safe to expect that all students senrolled in College this year will take advantage of these courses to make themselves ready to defend their nation, if such a thing be necessary. The nation no longer needs proof of the value of such courses. It only wants proof of the character of the individuals to whom these opportunities are offered...
...sensible about the thing. The work lies at each man's hand to be done; the one for the rifle, the other for the book. It should be done as allotted...