Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...orderlies, and the first building they entered was the Y. M. C. A. marquees. Here they passed by the counter and were given free cocoa, bread, cheese, crackers, and cigarettes. Can you imagine anything more wonderful than coming in, after being out in the enchase for days, perhaps, cold, wet, and hungry, and being given a nice hot cup of cocoa with a word of greeting? I cannot tell you what an impression this sight made on me, but it surely made my heart ache. Having seen the battle from the start, I could not help comparing it with...
...closer one gets to the front, the more religion must take on the form of service,--the giving of a cup of cold water, which in this case means hot coffee. I think of a typical dugout on the crest of a hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete...
...physical strength and in military efficiency. Darwin was certainly not a preacher of militarism, either directly or inferentially. We cannot put the blame for this war either upon Darwin or Nietzsche. When a man is intent upon evil purposes he can quote Scripture to his purpose. The men of cold science may indeed have "inspired" the German aggressors, but it must be noted that the Prussian mind was capable of perverting every utterance and every principle to its purpose. Boston Transcript...
...anyone is in doubt as to what his part should be with regard to these military courses, let him attend the meeting in the New Lecture Hall tonight. He will be appealed to not on any emotional grounds, but from a standpoint of cold logic...
...training which Harvard gives has never been primarily the soldiers training, save as all education trains for service and sacrifice. It has been a liberal broadening of mind which should make Harvard men leaders of peace, of science, and culture. That Harvard men should, when confronted with the cold fact of war be able to turn from those careers which they had planned to the new and urgent service is a tribute to the general abilities which they have attained. It is not a tribute to any unusually fierce or bellicose qualities of mind...