Word: wisely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...over one hundred Yale undergraduates are already in France in various kinds of military service and as thousands of students and graduates are fitting themselves to go over later it has seemed wise to the university authorities to be forehanded in establishing this bureau, which it is elieved, is the first of its kind arranged for an American university...
Under the circumstances prevailing this year Harvard Law School's decision to postpone the intended celebration of its first centenary is doubtless wise. Yet no delay of the outward formalities can change the fact that the school does come at this time to the close of its first hundred years, and hence to a point when all alumni and friends of the school will do well to reflect upon its splendid course in the past and to help provide funds for its continuing service in the future. To this end it is good news that copies of the school...
Such eagerness is honorable, but it is not wise, if we believe this war may last over an increasingly serious term of years. Men are destroyed easily by the iron tools of destruction which the modern army possesses. But they are healed slowly and only at great cost of skill, of time, and patience, by those who know their profession thoroughly. Our inventors have passed beyond the bounds of the imaginable in contriving ways whereby men may be in great quantities and instantaneously blotted from existence. They have not yet found a way whereby men may be restored mechanically...
...boldly refusing to countenance or further it in any way. Such a group of men, if we had it, and if they were sincere, would be of tremendous moral value in our community today. In those who believe, however, rightly or wrongly, that the war with Germany is wise and just or, if not wise and just, then inevitable, or if not inevitable, then at least much the lesser of two great evils (and this ought to include every man who cannot honestly say that the outcome of the war in Europe is a matter of no importance or concern...
Such an accusation, however hidden, coming at this period is barely decent. The examining officers know the physical and mental abilities of some hundreds of would-be officers who, keeping a wise weather eye on the draft bill, decided they would rather carry an officer's sabre than a private's rifle, although they had not the physical stamina to carry either on parade, nor the moral stamina to carry either in battle. It is largely such men who are now whimpering that they were not chosen. It need not be said whether their first thought is for their country...