Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...death of principalities and empires. Nor is it the end and consummation of individual lives. It is a sad necessity which has come on us to be fulfilled; but it can never be the goal of our ambitions, nor can we narrow our vision by refusing to look beyond...
...Beyond this war lies peace, when those of Harvard-sons who have passed through the struggle will take up with new hope the work of construction for which they have been trained. In that later time they will gain the fullest rewards of their training; not in this barbaric time, when the most martial nation has exalted its heroes to be almost gods...
...could well have been pardoned had it made up only a mediocre book. Its duty to the class which entrusted it with the work of the Album would have been fulfilled with the issuing of a volume which contained the briefest chronicle of the class. Yet the Committee went beyond its simple duty, anl in spite of difficulties incomparably greater than those which have arisen in other years, has made the 1917 Album an improvement in practically every way over the preceding...
...true that that accomplishment is far more splendid than the recounting? Was Achilles, Arcades, the ignorant, surly feller of men in battles, greater than Homer, who saw all of the known world, and beyond to the Pillars of Hercules, with a dreamer's eye? Was Henry the Fifth greater than Shakespeare, and Arthur greater than Tennyson...
...surpassing zeal some men have gone too far. It is well enough to say that the earth goes hungry, and that all our resources are needed to feed it. It is well enough to awake the nation to the duty which it must perform. But it is going beyond necessity or reason to tell in dismal words of famine stalking abroad, and of the collapse of most of our civilization through the lack of food. Some Government officials whose word bears weight, and who should know better, from a too strong imagination have done so. There is no need...