Word: strife
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...censored both Harvard and President Lowell for fostering a "spirit of unmitigated hostility toward Germany. Professor Meyer characterizes the poem as "damnable," and states that Harvard has "silently connived at its wide circulation in the press." Harvard has "wantonly and wickedly gone out of its way to carry strife into the hallowed peace of the academic world," while the University and its President "stand branded before the world and posterity as abetters of international animosity, and traitors to the sacred cause of humanity...
...remember that the request is not for the prohibition of beer at class smokers, but for a class vote upon the subject. The most intolerant could hardly deny the justice of such a demand. Such questions can only be satisfactorily disposed of by popular vote, and agitation and strife will continue until such a vote is obtained. The results of the Forum were enough to indicate that both sides have active support. The members of the Student Council should remember that the prestige of that body depends almost entirely upon the intelligent handling of public issues such as this...
...great and remarkable thing about this crisis in our country is the unity of opinion and feeling which has been exhibited by all parties and factions in this crisis," said Mr. Ratcliffe. This is the more remarkable because of the domestic trouble and bitter party strife existing just previous to the outbreak...
...public spirit, and to encourage the devotion of private money to public uses; fifthly, to create and foster agencies such as hospitals, training schools and technical schools in countries where they are lacking; sixthly, to promote recognition of the necessity of armed protective forces against possible invasion or internal strife; seventhly to strengthen public opinion in favor fo an international naval force; and eighthly to foster those religious instincts which strengthen family ties and tend to secure liberty and the highest public good. In this way, by slow and constant education of the people of the world, international peace...
...object to the plan for introducing college men in the army and navy, do not understand the aims and intentions of the government. The desirability of international peace we readily admit, but in the present stage of civilization it is a remote possibility. The probability of internal strife alone makes imperative the maintenance of a large army and navy. The need of men of education and superior intelligence in the rank and file of the army and navy we have explained and emphasized before. But the most important feature of the proposed reserve is the opportunity which it offers...