Word: tells
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tonight the University assembles to hear Dr. Mott's talk. We do not have to tell the 'student body how essential it is that every one be present; this is the most important assembly we have had since President Lowell addressed us at the outbreak of the War. It is not a question of trying to be present; the meeting must be attended in as great numbers as we can possibly muster. To hear Dr. Mott is the chance of a lifetime. Dr. Mott is an international figure: a man who knows the War and understands...
When Dr. Mott addresses his audience tomorrow at the New Lecture Hall the attendance must be thoroughly representative of the University. The room could be crowded easily, because there are thousands of people outside of Harvard who want to hear Dr. Mott tell of his experiences in Y. M. C. A. work abroad. Tomorrow, however, members alone will mean nothing. The University must be there. Dr. Mott can always address non-collegiate audiences; his talk here is the only one of its kind to be given,--he is to speak at this University and none other. The assembly then must...
...Mott was appointed a member of the American Commission to Russia headed by Elihu Root, and because of his recent return from this field he will have much to tell concerning the present situation in Russia. He was offered the ambassadorship to China by President Wilson, but he refused the post because of his important work in connection with soldiers. The University will be the only college in the country at which Dr. Mott will speak in the nation wide campaign which he is making for the Red Triangle War Work...
...hard to tell which of these aspects is the more important. The military defeat of Germany would destroy the militarism of the imperialists. On the other hand, a re-assertion on the part of all the allies of the principles of President Wilson and the new Russian democracy, as well as their actual interpretation, would split the democratic from the imperialistic elements in Germany. Such a movement would accomplish our armies in the war no less than military success. The United States does not have to go through three years of war to find out that it is fighting...
...times call on the man. There are truths to be known, and deeds to be accomplished. Where is the wise man who is born once in ten generations, to tell us the great truth out of all falsehoods, and accomplish the great deed out of all errors...