Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...word also to the students. Athletics are good; study is even better; and best of all is the development of the type of character for the lack of which, in an individual, as in a nation, no amount of brilliancy of mind or strength of body will atone. Harvard must do more than produce students: yet, after all, she will fall immeasurably short of her duty and her opportunity unless she produces a great number of true students, of true scholars...
...faddist or a doctrinaire, but who abhors corruption and dislikes inefficiency; who wishes to see decent government prevail at home, with genuine equality of opportunity for all men so far as it can be brought about, and who wishes, as far as foreign matters are concerned, to see this nation treat all other nations, great and small with respect, and if need be with generosity, and at the same time show herself able to protect herself by her own might from any wrong at the hands of any outside power. Each man here should feel that he has no excuse...
...largely educational, and corresponds to our ordinary grammar and high school courses. The hospitals and medical schools under the charge of the Board, however, are doing a very important work in giving the people medical care and in teaching them the proper regard for hygiene, which as a nation they lack...
...reaped as we sowed. Twenty-five years ago, Jules Simon, addressing his countrymen, described the crop with great exactness: "Where the home is smothered in a nation, there go with it family, manhood, citizenship, patriotism." New York was long ago, with far too much truth, called "the homeless city...
...American Nation: A History;" vol. 20, "The Appeal to Arms," by J. K. Hosmer...