Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some of our soldiers disabled in action have already been sent home from the war zone to the United States and their numbers will be constantly augmented as the war proceeds. Our obligation to these men does not cease with their discharge from the hospital or even with the payment of their war insurance. We are moved to assist them to start an active and useful life from new beginnings not only by ordinary humanity, but by the confidence with which the men already crippled look to us for aid in this discouraging under-taking. Provision is already being made...
...business concerns primarily interested in profits are willing to make sacrifices to aid the uneducated or mechanically inclined war cripple our schools and colleges created for public service should certainly make especial efforts to assist those capable of mental achievement. Many disabled soldiers who had left college or preparation for college to go to war will complete their college training in the natural course of events. But many more will require special assistance and special arrangements of entrance requirements and the like if they are to receive the mental training needed to place them on an equal competitive basis with...
...mass meeting of University men in the New Lecture Hall last evening. "I am glad because it shows that you want to know what is going on and wish to be ready to take part in the struggle. I suppose that nobody doubts that we went into the war unprepared. Let us hope that when the war ends we will not be unprepared for peace...
...first problem for us to face is that of the war itself. We are just entering upon it. Our allies have been through it all for several long years. The true sacrifice is not yet ours, but it will soon come, when the lists of casualties grow from the present few to vast numbers which will not be printed. Then our people will ask, 'What are we fighting for?' We are fighting for neither fear nor greed, but because it is the duty of every self-respecting man to save civilization...
...after the war, what then? That which has occurred will probably do so again. And if we look at the Napoleonic and Civil Wars we see that they were both followed by ages of materialism. There has been an enormous destruction of material and loss of wealth in this war, and it is but natural that the thoughts of all should turn at once to building and saving. But if that is all we think of, we are gone. The young men must say, 'We will not allow things to drop while we save, but will spend our time...