Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course of the past year with its tremendous changes in life and institutions the University has been called upon to bear as heavy a toll of its finest figures as perhaps any academic organization in the country. While the war casualties are still appearing we have the news of the death, first of a distinguished graduate and now of a cherished teacher. Any attempt to express our sorrow or adequately to appreciate their lives must end in failure. Greatness we may attribute to a historical figure. It is not enough to assign to one we knew personally and admired...
...most of the plans and practices of the Faculty we are prepared to submit without question, recognizing their superior wisdom in matters connected with the academic life of the University. But it is always well to bear in mind that "the best will sometimes fail" and the judgment of our superiors is by no means to be accepted in every case as infallible...
...recognized as due to his country from every able-bodied man without pay. Soldiers in the present national army of the United States receive one dollar a day as pay, in addition to being completely found by the government. Considering what the modern soldier has to do and bear in trench warfare, in bayonet and hand grenade assaults and in storming towns and cities from the air, the idea of a man's doing it for pay is absolutely revolting. No worthy soldier does it or would do it for pay. He does and endures the horrible things required...
...fields and woods, the inevitable graves--sometimes singly or in twos or threes--and again, as when a number of men have fallen before some village strong point--in little cemeteries--graves of Germans as well as French and Americans. And the saddest graves are those which bear some such inscription as "5 Unknown French soldiers, fallen gloriously for their country...
...time. Indeed the entire conference illustrated the very point on which the discussion of this subject revealed complete unanimity--the point that every gathering together of college graduates at this time should subordinate all its interests to the one interest of the war. Nothing which did not bear upon this all-embracing topic was discussed at the meeting of the secretaries, and the testimony they brought from their many institutions was to the effect that experience has already established the positive value of war-time reunons of alumni. The colleges of the country have conspicuously shown themselves to be centres...