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Whatever the source of the ideals before a nation it is important to know that the men who form or interpret them are the leaders of its people. Their responsibility is so enormous that a false ideal set up by them may carry the work of a whole generation to no advance. The opportunity of a university lies in the training of these men. If the university insists upon interesting itself primarily with the culture of the past, a culture which was as new in its day as the present culture which the university ignores is today, then men will...
...once refer to President Wilson. The Covenant which he discussed was not "Wilson's plan" it was the plan of the best brains which the allied countries could furnish. The popular conception, unfortunately encouraged and fostered by President Wilson himself, that he alone is the father of the ideal and the doctrine, is as erroneous as a similar conception that Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence. Increasing antagonism to one man rule, which was apparent in the audience every time Senator Lodge mentioned the administration, will prevent the adoption of any League unless it is realized that such an important...
...have acquiesced in a twofold condition whereby great hordes of foreigners are unable--sometimes unwilling--to live according to American standards of living, and who, by their degradation no less than by their words, have poisoned the minds of other foreigners against this nation, which once had been the ideal of the immigrant. To have civilized and Christianized the slums twenty years ago would have been to prevent the horrors that are taking place in Russia today. THE CHURCHMAN...
...England thinks that America has made a great earnest sacrifice and that now the two countries must stand together. The British would be amazed if we did not follow them up. Britain has not always been able to find her ideal leader but at this time she has found salvation in the man who is qualified to lead, more by circumstances than by the devotion of the intellectual classes. And to this choice the British expect to find a parallel in America's future conduct, for the circumstances are no less urgent and the end is far greater...
...statement cannot be doubted. For the sake of an ideal, America sent millions of men to Europe and placed all her resources at the disposal of the Allies when, in a material sense, she had nothing to gain. No nation in history has ever before made such sacrifices for such a reason...