Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are few good ideas which occur everywhere simultaneously. Here is one which loses none of its value for Harvard and other colleges because they did not happen to think of it first. We do not undertake to suggest the precise method of making it applicable to the Harvard men in service; but the necessary machinery, utilizing perhaps the home addresses of men in service, perhaps the agency of the American University Union in Europe, perhaps both, does not seem to lie beyond the inventive power of an individual or group of men to whom the idea of giving...
...anyone at home dares suggest that possibly the enemy may be stronger than we expect, he is looked upon as a pessimist. If he protests against heavy expenditures for displays of an emotional sort, he is fortunate if he is not considered openly unpatriotic. Even those who have been to France and have seen war stripped of its garnishings, ineffectually try to stem the tide of current opinion. Nothing but time and suffering can do it, and how intensely painful the realization is going to be! We will find that, though we are sending to France armies of the finest...
...therefore suggest for the earnest consideration of this University a plan of academic training throughout the year, which will not only place Harvard among leaders in educational reform, but which will go far toward a more complete conception of war-time needs. This is not peace and we cannot be satisfied with a normal college life. The true sphere of the university is the provision of academic training, as much as possible of it at all times, but the very maximum at this period in the world's affairs...
...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, both by word and by deed, that it remains an open forum for the discussion of undergraduate affairs? The printing of this letter would perhaps be taken as an indication that it holds such a position. M. A. DEWOLFE HOWE...
...What we suggest is that the American people be left alone to hate or not to hate exactly as their individual consciences and hearts decide. Hate is destructive, a terrible thing to arouse. But there are times when it is a sound instinct of self-preservation--as sound as the instinct to fight. Just whom we shall hate (if we are impelled to hate at all), whether only the Kaiser, or only the Junkers, or the whole German nation, is equally a matter for individual thrashing out. The only criterion we can insist upon is that we shall know...