Word: mind
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Militarism is a state of mind which poisons the acts and life of a whole nation; and as such it may be totally independent of universal military service. Switzerland, for example, maintains a system of military training that has proved of inestimable value alike to the individual and to the nation; yet, few would venture to say that Switzerland is "burdened with an incubus" or that it suffers from "the odium of professional militarism...
General Pershing has been giving some good advice to the Military Committee of Congress. However displeasing his opinions may be to the Baker March combination, he undoubtedly speaks the mind of the whole country when he declares against a regular army of a half-million men. Half that number, General Pershing thinks, would be sufficient for all probable needs if some scheme of general military training is devised. --Boston Herald...
High praise of the attitude of the University throughout the war, under the leadership of President Lowell, and strong emphasis on the importance of bearing in mind the military lessons of the war, are the keynotes of the report of the Committee on Military Science and Tactics to the Board of Overseers of the University which has just been made public...
...prevalent picture of a modern missionary in the mind of the average educated man is the idea of a long-haired individual, with a Bible, standing under a palm tree trying to "convert the heathen." Many people have a strong antagonism to the work of missions, and believe that people in foreign countries are happier without than with the missionary...
...case of the one negro convicted, there seems to be an absurdity in the proportion of his sentence to the alleged crime. If he is guilty of three attacks on women, a six months' sentence either denotes an honest doubt of the man's guilt in the mind of the court, or else that circumstances existed of such a mitigating nature that the offense was deemed mild; this could not be were it a case of out and out attack. Is it reasonable to suppose that any man under normal circumstances, convicted of three cases of assault on women, would...