Excerpt from The Work of a College During the War: Address at the Opening of the 118th Year of Middlebury College, September 20, 1917

But even if it were possible to divorce our thought from the stupendous events now occurring, and from the awakened passion of our nation to bear its part in the renovation of the world, it would not be patriotic for us to do so. As teachers and students we are still citizens, and even at the cost of considerable diversion from the educational endeavors which are our primary purpose, we must follow the course of the struggle, informing ourselves as best we may of the deeds of the armies and the ¿eets, and still more carefully seek ing to work our way through to the real issues of the con¿ict and the principles which are being fought out for the world to live by after the great horror has passed. College men and women should allow none to excel them in patriotism, nor in patriotic interest in the problems and endeavors of their country.

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