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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...habit of respecting persons or office in his expressions of opinion. What now would be think to be the proper attitude of a professor of Law or of History, whose opinion is sure to carry weight, when he sees the President and Congress threatening war against a nation of our own flesh and blood, with whom we have every conceivable interest to live in peace, while war with them would mean putting back human civilization for half a century, and all on account of petty dispute between two nations in which he firmly believes we have no right whatever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/10/1896 | See Source »

...Lowell was no more thoroughly convinced that the Mexican war was a sin against humanity than we are that a war with England about the Venezuelan frontier would be the great crime of the age. No one pretends that we ought to threaten war merely in defence of Venezuela; but we are told that we must rally to the defence of the "Monroe! Doctrine." This doctrine is now more than seventy years old, and it is its spirit rather than its letter with which we are concerned now. As I understand it, I hold it in the highest respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/10/1896 | See Source »

...means a criticism of our government's position; it said nothing at all about the merits of the question. "We assert," it says, "that it is a duty entailed upon us as citizens of the United States to do everything in our power to oppose the war spirit so rampant now." Now if Mr. Warner or any other man can show us that the stand taken by the United States on this question is wrong he ought to do so and thus prove Mr. Roosevelt to be wrong. The trouble is that he fights shy of the main question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1896 | See Source »

...members of the University recognize the horrors and suffering which war would cause our country and regret the possibility of waging war for a third time with the mother country. I am sure, however, that most members of the University believe that we should not let questions of expediency outweigh the consideration of what is due our national honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1896 | See Source »

...speak on these matters without fear or favor? Is it not plain that nothing can more impede a rational conclusion, or more lower our dignity in our own eyes, than to approach such questions in a feverish heat, or to let professions of patriotism or savage praise of war frighten us away from a deliberate search for the right? It is to resist such impulses, and to insist on a critical study of all questions, that universities exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1896 | See Source »

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