Word: war
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Scott began by saying that the forces that are making towards peace are many and well organized. The independence of nations has made them strong, and their equality follows from this independence. Independence in its execution leads to dependence on others, and so to interdependence. Consequently when war breaks out, the neutral nations suffer with the guilty; there is a state of confusion, and trade is paralyzed. Hence the non-combatants will try to make peace between the belligerents if only from a selfish motive...
...Scott was a member of educational congresses at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. He was also a delegate from the United States to the second international Peace Conference, which was held at the Hague in 1907. He fought in the Spanish War as corporal in a California regiment...
...memorial to the Harvard men who entered the service of the United States at the time of the Spanish War and died either as a result of wounds or from disease or exhaustion incident to this service, will be placed in the Living Room of the Union. Out of the 389 Harvard graduates and undergraduates who entered the army, eleven died as a result of their service...
After being graduated from Harvard in 1860, Mr. Spaulding entered the Divinity School, from which he was graduated in 1866. During the Civil War, he served on the United States Sanitary Commission. Since then he has spent most of his time lecturing and preaching in the schools and colleges throughout this country and Europe. He is also the author of numerous books on biblical subjects...
...only been thrown at our naval officers; it has even reached our greatest presidents. Lincoln, bearing the troubles of a great war upon his shoulders, was mercilessly reviled; Grant was attacked; McKinley, at the crisis of the Spanish War, was fiercely slandered by the papers. Today Theodore Roosevelt, fearless and straightforward, is being criticised on all sides...