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...spirit which is exemplified in the Harvard Union for American Neutrality and in the speeches of Mr. Bryan is the same which extenuates robbery in order to avoid any unfortunate danger to the persons of the municipal police force. It is the same spirit which came very close to crushing England at the beginning...
...controversy with Germany. We have stated our position in-numerable times, and, after two years in deliberation and judicious action have borne no fruit, are we hasty and hot-headed when we declare that we shall talk no more? We have done our deliberating; we have studiously tried to avoid war; and yet, after all that has passed we are told that we are in a danger of being injudicious and hasty! Nor is there a general misunderstanding, as the platform declares. The issues are very plain. They have been carefully and repeatedly presented...
...Because on May 8, 1916, the President 'to avoid any possible misunderstanding,' had solemnly declared, with the approval of the American people, that the Government of the United States could not 'for a moment entertain, much less discuss, a suggestion that respect by German naval authorities for the rights of citizens of the United States upon the high seas should in any way or in the slightest degree be made contingent upon the conduct of any other government affecting the rights of neutrals and non-combatants...
...duty of every Harvard man to abstain from offering nostrums of his own for the avoidance of war. The President will avoid war if it can honorably be avoided. If it cannot honorably be avoided, war must come. It is the duty of Harvard men to line up ready for orders, not to take a vote as to the wisdom of those orders. If war must come, let us enter the war as a united nation, not as a divided nation after a bitter political struggle. Let every Harvard man frown on the suggestion that war be preceded...
...shall be so busy organizing and training the millions who will be willing to learn to fight for their country that we, unlike England today, can easily spare those who have honest convictions opposed to military service as well as those who will be willing to perjure themselves to avoid doing their duty...