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...God likes to see a man crawl out of the sewer and get up in the roof garden--not the man who is little because it is easy to be so. Study your capabilities! If God wants you to be an iron cog-wheel in the machinery of life, you will be better off the sooner you stop trying to be a steam whistle or a glaring searchlight...
Blind patriotism is as great a factor as any in the present devastation of Europe. Nations unreasoningly believe that right and the God of right war together with them, but somewhere there must be a limit to the desirability of unreasoning loyalty...
...question of the relations between the American people and the people of other lands. The people, I say; not the governments. In this great conflict, it is the people, not the rulers, who occupy the first place in our thoughts, and at the end, the people, even the women (God be praised!), will have to be considered. What ought our position to be? The situation is absolutely new in history. The problems that we shall face are not primarily political or legal problems, but human ones; the questions that we shall have to answer are questions that state themselves...
...operations of these Harvard delvers on the margin of the Nubian desert. The world will await with interest their fuller and more authoritative story. But we know that at least they have won an archaeological victory, even if they have won it at the hands of the god of chance. They were at least earnestly "on the job" to take advantage of any gifts that that god might bring them. Boston Transcript...
...border with the militia. Should not a proper sense of values move even a stern and warlike Government to release them to the greater service? Because a college president becomes President of the United States, must he revise the order of the grades in the academic climax: For God-for country-and for the dear old college? Let the boys come home, to learn the greater strategy of line bucking, end running and bombardment with drop kick and punt. -New York...