Word: jingoism
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...best known to this last fringe of the countless students who have passed under his interest, is the social bravery which stamped every one of his actions. Whether as University administrator or as commentator on national affairs, Dr. Eliot never hesitated to speak his opinion. An implacable enemy of jingoism and of militarism, he at the same time tempered his principles with wisdom. The Anti-Imperalist League which won such undeserved unpopularity in 1898 had no more ardent nor outspoken leader than the President of Harvard University. We of this generation do not know of this, but we have some...
...real jingoists." A scholarly idea, suggestive of a wide historical background! Undoubtedly you remember that this very idea of training the whole nation was followed most thoroughly before the war by Germany. Can you, by any stretch of memory, recall if there was not the slightest tendency toward jingoism in that nation? If the representative nobles, commonly known here as war-lords, scorned to egg the government on, or the war-trained people displayed a marked lack of enthusiasm...
America, long considered the most defenceless great nation in the world, has just swallowed two bitter doses of jingoism without blinking. European countries, where a vigorous military class has long been the tradition, finds its war-like ideals trampled upon by their former defenders. Perhaps this reversed balance of trade in military illusions may mean a reversal of military strength, as Bertrand Russell insists, the United States may become the only great military nation in the world. The unsophisticated ear of American public opinion is still fascinated by the blare of warlike demonstration, and the jingo is still the herald...
...need. To be sure, the idea is not new. It was suggested by the late President Harding last Summer. But the Monitor monarch proposes that a Constitutional Amendment shall be passed making this triple conscription obligatory- and thereby in the future scare all classes of society out of jingoism. In pursuance of his editorial decree, the front page of the Monitor has been placarded heavily with notices of the decree, giving the opinions of people -from the "spokesman at the White House" to Jane Addams-and the rear (editorial) page been liberally posted with explications of the plan...
Internationalism may as the Transcript suggests, be silly. Patriotic pride may be one of the goods of life. But to require the schools to teach a Deutschland Uber Alles jingoism in order to inculcate joy in the childish heart is a silly and dangerous thing...