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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...forces, increased control of international relations, and so on, certainly now is that time. As the one great nation which will not be exhausted and embittered by the combat, the United States has a most important and essential part to play in the coming readjustment. Is it idle to think that the hardest and yet the most necessary lesson which must be taught will be mutual trust and co-operation among nations? And need it be suggested that example is ever a better teacher than precept? Let us by all means keep ourselves in a position to counsel peace...
...believe that the men who will go are doing it from any fondness for jingoism or militarism, or that they will prove a menace to the anti-militaristic principles of this country. I think that they realize what the CRIMSON so evidently does not realize,--the fact that our country is pitifully unprepared to face an actual crisis of any sort, demanding a display of armed force. It is not, unfortunately, a question of mere physical bravery, or even of patriotism in actual warfare, but a question of officers who know their business, of efficient guns, of ammunition to meet...
...grant the charge of idealism; but think it preferable to the "vice of looking backwards." History may teach that war has always been; but the present war is teaching with a bitterness that must lead to action the impotence of war, the need for taking long delayed and tremendous strides forward...
...call to be all things to all boys. Let the men in the cage downtown, who see life through a wire mesh, put the problem of bonds versus boys. There are many misfits and many sad dislocations. Let the man who has mistaken a chance vacancy for a vocation think twice before he spends his life persuading himself that the one is the other. There are men selling dry-goods who ought to be breaking bronchos; there are men in the mills who ought to be in the forests; there are men adding columns who ought to be leading columns...
...showing him facts that may be new to him. Are we to urge a man to keep away lest he learn the truth? Is the position of those that oppose all preparation for possible war so weak that they fear to have a college man, who can and will think for himself, brought face to face with the other side of the problem for six weeks...