Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...infallible instinct of Theodore Roosevelt has given us a name for all the shapes of treachery that squeak and gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...
...established to promote the military instincts of its leaders, nor to make a pretty showing at ranks and files on parade, nor yet to give men the heroic protection of the uniform without the blood and sacrifice whereby the uniform is justified. The Corps was established to prepare us leaders of war, and that purpose will not be evaded...
Once again Columbia comes before the world in an unenviable light. In this morning's paper we read of the expulsion of Professors Cattell and Dana from that university for holding pacifist views (oh, la belle raison!). Some of us still hold to the belief (is it so unreasonable?) that a professor dissenting from the majority opinion respecting the governmental war policy is not thereby disqualified from teaching psychology or comparative literature. The Columbia Faculty, however, take the opposite view and apparently agree with the Imperial German Government that political orthodoxy is the test of intellectual capacity. Indeed one might...
...irreconcilable from the eternal desire of egoism to be individual, then let their thought be obliterated, for we have enough of egoisms which are mad with the consciousness of themselves. But if the thought of such men is strong and clear, however strange it may seem to us, let us not dare, for the very fear of truth that is in us, to obliterate it, lest we be one with those who crucified righteousness for the cry of the Pharisees and the rabble...
...Give us irreconcilables that we may justify our own convictions. Give us adversaries that we may know the consciousness of our own strength. Give us rocks to stand against the tide, and oaks against the whirlwind...