Word: america
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exhibition flight shortly before scheduled to sail for America, Hobey Baker, former Princeton football and hockey star, met his death December 21, at Toul, France. While an undergraduate, he was captain of the Princeton hockey team and was one of the most brilliant players the game has produced. Throughout his athletic career he remained an amateur in spite of many professional offers. After graduation from college he played with the St. Nicholas Hockey Club of New York, which won the National Amateur Championship...
...merely accentuated this condition. It was evident enought that the American college had developed the brains of its students but had neglected their bodies. Then came the big cantonments, and with them the opportunity to show what men of vision could do to utilize athletics in the development of America's fighting machine...
...appointment of Captain Morize as assistant professor of French literature in the University is gratifying news to us all. Especially is it so at this time when the ties of friendship between France and America are firmer and closer than ever before. Our President in France is being shown a remarkable degree of cordial hospitality, which brings a thrill to the heart of every American. If for no other reason than that we would receive Captain Morize with sincere welcome...
...this fall, Captain Morize had a very large part in the preparation of the R. O. T. C. men for service in the war. Many a University man, trained under his experienced direction, now lies among the honored dead on French soil, or survives among the heroic soldiers of America. Consequently, we feel that he has helped the University to play the proud and leading part which it has been her good fortune to have in the war for freedom...
...this subject lies in error is that not infrequently the parties in debate place an improper degree of faith in the goodness of human nature: too much, as in the case of notable English publicists; too little, as in the case of some of our lesser statesmen in America...