Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Class Day Week is to assume the proportions which characterized this celebration before the ascendency of Mars. With the general exodus of undergraduates and the continual drain upon the College's resources by war needs, it has for two years been but the "shealed peascod" of former glory. But already the Class of 1919 is planning memorable festivities for this June...
...war has revealed many virtues in the American people it has also brought to light one of the most sinister vices that can affliot a civilized community. The army reports from the different draft camps reveal an alarming percentage of illiteracy among the draftees, not only with men of foreign birth but also among the native born Americans. New estimates represent, the number of illiterates in the country as being far above the census reports of the last decade...
...country that has most to lose by war and disorder and anarchy, the United States has most to gain by peace and security. Some senators and representatives of the United States and other public men argue that we must take care of ourselves. When the conditions of the world proved to be such that the British Empire has been absolutely unable to take care of itself alone, when the alert and courageous French nation was all but strangled, when Russia with a hundred and sixty million people breaks into fragments, what guarantee has the United States of America that...
Never has the United States had such a shining proposition offered to it. We are asked to give up no part of our constitution, our system of government, our laws, our possessions, except the present right to make war when we think best, for reasons that satisfy us, against any other nation that we see fit. This is a small privilege to a nation like ours, which is essentially pacific. In return for that concession we get two great privileges. The first is an assurance against the return of the frightful conditions which led to the present war, into which...
Whether we accept the "League of Nations" or not, we must maintain the trust we have won. For after all, the future peace of the world depends primarily on the conference existing between states. No pact however perfect can eliminate war if mutual distrust is engendered. If the motives of our action in the Great War were upheld to future generations as examples to follow in all foreign dealings, the world would become educated in the difference between international right and wrong...