Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...alumni interest and concern, I believe it would be unfortunate if any members of the University should be permitted to entertain a just resentment against the College daily for closing its columns to reasonable expressions of opinion on College matters. In the present instance I would not undertake to distinguish between just and unjust resentment, reasonable and unreasonable expressions. If the letters addressed to the Bulletin had criticized that journal and not the CRIMSON, they would probably have been printed without any such analysis. As it is, may I suggest that the CRIMSON would do well to reassure its readers...
...plan will depend for its success upon something more than the mere approval of the War Department. To be of the fullest value it must also have Governmental recognition. The argument so often presented in the case of individual college camps that the Federal authorities cannot distinguish between institutions will no longer obtain. Here will be an all-college Plattsburg to all intents and purposes identical with the training camps which the Federal authorities themselves created. If may be too much to expect that the college students attending will be granted commissions on a satisfactory completion of the course...
...reason for his not joining a college training unit. Such a man, it was said, should not be deprived of the privilege of athletic competition when he was preparing himself for service other than military. The answer to this theorem is a perfectly logical one; it is impossible to distinguish between patriots and slackers. No undergraduate or graduate wants to see the University represented by any man who is not doing his utmost toward his future usefulness...
...selected for their youth, their courage, and their virility, are to present America to Europe in the guise of warriors, and in all the pictures which we have been permitted to see of them they are so unmistakably of the New World that only a glance is needed to distinguish them from a group of French or British soldiers, fine, upstanding though they...
...often calls forth accusations of disloyalty and failure to support the Government. Whoever ventures to oppose the President runs the risk of being termed a friend to Germany. Many opinions, to be sure, are expressed because of political opposition or personal prejudice, yet some arise from patriotic motives. To distinguish the useless and even disloyal criticism from the genuine is often difficult. There is, however, a fundamental difference in that the latter is directed entirely to the benefit of the nation, and is usually the sentiment of many people. In advising a policy which Mr. Wilson opposes...