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From the two great branches of national service and from half a score of other organizations for defence the call now comes insistently for men. It is vain and contrary to the needs of the hour to point out that the demand for men might have been in part forestalled by a more vigilant or more far seeing national legislature. We cannot supply the present with the failure of the past...
...sorrowfully, that we have forgotten our ancient tradition of liberty and of strength, bending our knees in idolatry to false gods of Mammon. They have said we no longer remember how the victorious fight. But now that we have conquered our hesitancy, now that we have conquered the vain idealism of peace, we will go into war as we have always gone into war: seeking no end but the utmost end, stopping not one stride short of victory. We will put a new idealism into the conflict of national ideals, so that other peoples may know the greatness...
...suggestions, let me assure Mr. La Farge that he is over-pessimistic when he says, "I do not suppose that many will heed such a letter as this--no past experience has led me to this hope." His, the "one voice raised from Harvard," has not been raised in vain. LAWRENCE DENNIS...
Learn this, and although failing in all manner of bookish wisdom, your college education will not have been in vain, for you will have learned to rub elbows with the broad, infinitely varied outside world...
...possibility of a diplomatic break with Germany which has existed for the past two years has suddenly become a a serious fact. Our government by submitting in the past to countless acts of violence against our citizens and national honor has tried in every conceivable manner, but in vain, to avert a rupture with the German nation. In the future our actions, whether hostile or not, will be clearly defined and will follow the strong policy inaugurated by the official dismissal of the German Ambassador...