Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American is naturally an egoist. He loves to do things in a spectacular way with himself as hero. Subconsciously he knows himself to be just a little better, stronger, and more farsighted than any foreigner. This supreme confidence, misplaced as it may be, gives him unbounded energy to do his part well. It is, however, often damaging. He instinctively tends to belittle his enemy and to consider him a foe of decidedly inferior mettle. American soldiers, officers and men, arrive in France, fresh from their training camps, without any doubts that their march toward Berlin is to continue peacefully uninterrupted...
There is a remedy for this state of affairs which has already been inaugurated in some universities and which American colleges might well consider. There exists the urgent need of following Columbia and Technology in an adoption of a program of training which would permit students to be active in academic study throughout the year. The all-year college term has worked well in Europe and is now needed in America. The summer vacation must not remain an obstacle to those who desire no delay. Of the many young men who no doubt will soon enter the national service...
...measure of the American university's war-time service is the maximum of which it is capable of rendering. A hundred percent institution today is one which is devoting the entire energy and ability humanly possible to the support of the Government. Hopeless as such theoretical perfection may be, there can nevertheless be no doubt that universities are falling short of what may reasonably be expected of them. With the end of those initial out-pourings of men, they have failed to keep pace with the increased energies of the remainder of the nation's life...
...splendid proof and token of the perpetuity of the fighting spirit of the American people, and a token and promise of glorious days to come, when the young soldiers now in France, themselves looking back upon fifty years of honorable citizenship, their days lengthened in the light of their country's gratitude, will bear aloft on our Boston streets the same untiring standard of liberty. --Boston Transcript...
Practice for the 1921 jubilee chorus will be resumed tonight, when the whole class will again meet in Smith Halls Common Room at 7 o'clock. Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will conduct the singing, making American war songs the principle feature. It is probable that next week the chorus will be divided by dormitories and work will be begun on part songs...