Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Even in this hour of wide-spread disillusionment and reaction," said Professor Bliss Perry in his address before the University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday noon, "I venture to select a few ideals for society which have been proclaimed by poetry. Let us ask ourselves whether these ideals still persist and whether the poets think that there is any measurable progress towards their attainment...
...Germans, relying on our hazy knowledge of facts, are attempting to appeal to our sympathy. Too much has been sacrificed to yield to any momentary reaction towards sentimentalism. The German arguments can easily be overturned, provided we view them in the light of knowledge and justice...
...developing ourselves to the utmost of our capacity, and along lines in which we are best fitted to serve, we are doing our bit toward the development of the nation. The fight to develop the student body is the fight for which colleges exist. Even during the normal reaction from actual war it cannot be lost sight of. It is a fight that no armistice can end and no loan...
...reaction against all things military produced in our minds by months of wartime service, coupled with the present diminished need of armed force, is hard for the moment to overcome. Nevertheless, the time now seems at hand for us to swing back again to a normally balanced viewpoint on the subject. In other colleges the tide is already turning toward a renewed preparedness for possible war. At Princeton men are already signing up, though slowly at first, for the Field Artillery Unit to be formed there this summer. Columbia has established a form of military department, in which Government instructors...
...minority," a Boston Tea Party on a large scale was planned for the evening of June 30th, signs were displayed such as "First our beer, then our tobacco and then --" and "We fought for Democracy and we got Prohibition and Spanish Influenza." Whether prohibition be good or not the reaction against it is a healthy American one. The bloody Bolshevik forgets his paroxysms, the politician his politics, the average man forgets his mediocrity in a loud protest for his friend the bottle. If this is not the voice of the people, what...