Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most gratifying thing about this war is that the bulk of men of all callings have been ready to make whatever sacrifice the authorities have asked them to make. There has been a hearty response by the American people to the call to fight in the trenches, to meet the perils of death in the service of the destroyers on the deep, to drive rivets in the biting blasts of zero weather, to subscribe to Liberty Bonds, to give to the Red Cross and to count nothing of any value except the winning of the war. The man who thinks...
...cadets will be expected to familiarize themselves with the Organization of the Platoon, according to the new American Formations...
...appointments of officers and non-commissioned officers to hold office until the end of the College year will be published on the first day of the spring term. The two organizations that are executing the combat problem will be divided into two full companies according to the new American regulations, and during the exercises battalion commanders will act as captains...
...pity it is that we cannot learn to be a little more unassuming, a little more willing to share the limelight with a worthy partner, to subordinate our selves to the Cause. The individual soldiers are not to be blamed. The fault lies deeper yet. It is with the American public at home who insist upon regarding war as a glorious sport at which our athletes are in nature bound to win. Parade after parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have captured...
Samuel Henshaw, A.M. '03, was appointed by the Overseers as Director of the University Museum. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and since 1904 has been Curator of the University Museum of Comparative Zoology...