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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...military training, and it is all under the best possible hygienic conditions. In the training, officers will be necessary, and about 80 per cent, of these will come from the Officers' Reserve Corps. The men will be instructed to keep free from vice disease, which is a very important thing, for vice diseases lie at the very fountain head of human life. What does it mean to the young men to get one such period of this training? In the first place, it means democracy, living together with other men; it means vocational improvement, educational improvement, and a general physical...
...steps to restore agricultural production to a pre-war basis, have not in any practical way begun. The means are not available for these nations to help themselves without outside assistance, and that assistance they anticipated from the League of Nations, itself helpless without America. If there is one thing Europe needs at the present time it is encouragement, and this we are failing to give. France and England are losing confidence in our sincerity. The criticism of the people is barely echoed in the regrets and insinuations of their governments...
...genius of the American people has achieved world superiority in business and its ancillary sciences, and in its political institutions. There is no room for vainglory; both achievements were made possible and fostered by the vastness of the country and by its natural wealth. One thing should be forever fixed in the mind of every young man who proposes to use his citizenship intelligently and conscientiously; neither of these achievements is due to any one class of men, and least of all has the superiority of our political institutions been due to the politician class, or to individual statesmen during...
...interest with reference to the personal interest, now hold but a small balance of power, however fiercely they may appeal to the fetish of their obsolescent party creeds; that now is the opportunity to discuss real issues, and that now public opinion may do, if it will, the one thing most needed by demanding for the leadership of the nation knowledge proved by experience, coupled with powers educated and strengthened in successful achievement...
...these days of constantly shifting opinion, when the one thing our statesmen, politicians, and publicists seem certain of is that they cannot tell what the morrow will bring forth when we turn in vain to our journals of considered comment for any solution of the welter about us, it is with something of relief that we pick up a magazine which may be fairly taken to represent the opinions of such a body of citizens as the graduates of Harvard University. Surely here, if anywhere, we may expect to find sanity and an enlightened conservatism. And we are not disappointed...