Word: warring
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...think only of their value to the state. They did not give their lives to win our sorrow or to gain the fame of posterity; all that they gave they gave for their country. They were indeed men of arms. The Union soldiers did not take up arms for war's sake, but for the sole reason that there was no other way to obtain the end they sought...
...fist lesson of their lives is that the young citizen should take no counsel of his feas in attacking an evil to the state; another is that the remedy of war, though heroic, is sometimes costly almost beyond utility, and is justified only by the certainty of failure of all other means...
Memorial Service to commemorate the sons of Harvard who fell in the War. Sanders Theatre...
...writer, intimating that the Harvard undergraduate considers the war with Spain "unnecessary and unjust," and denouncing our law-makers as "unscrupulous," declares that it is yet necessary, under our faulty democratic government, to give the war an "unconditional moral support." How this extraordinary task is to be accomplished he explains with the utmost lucidity. The undergraduates are to contribute to the "austere and thoughtful academic influence" of the University by refusing to enlist until a call shall be received to which they can, without loss of dignity, respond. Meanwhile, the fighting shall be left to fellows whose fathers...
That the young gentleman who wrote this editorial should disapprove of the war and of the American government is distressing, but must be borne with patience. That there are good reasons why every young man in the country who has the impulse to enlist should think twice before he follows it we can not doubt; President Eliot has made for us a very clear and noble aualysis of the different motives to enlistment. But two of the ideas presented in the editorial are so novel to a graduate that I can not forbear a comment. The first is the proposition...