Word: boys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Inspection day bears as dark terrors to the mind of the brave soldier as the first day of school does to the conventially unconventional bad little boy Last week, overcome by the agony of being looked at, one man in an unnamed company fell over, presumably from stage-fright or weakness of the knees, although the later diagnosis was unpatriotic German measles. Seeing him, in the next company men fell over by flocks. It is recorded that one corporal gave the command "Follow me!" and proceeded with appetite to bite the dust...
...young people are a little too prone to mistake excitement for duty. The outbreak of the war naturally makes people a little excited, but this is a time when every man and boy should have a more than usually keen sense of duty, should not allow excitement or exuberance of patriotism to deter him from performing to the best of his ability the obligations that lie before him; and until the age or the opportunity of rendering real military or other service arrives, the duty of the boy or young man is to train himself to clear thought, to steady...
...Allies, might wish Russia to enter in the common war against Germany with renewed fire and fiercer incentive for victory, yet our wishes nor the wishes of the Allies could influence a people before whom an instant and more obvious liberation was opened. Russia is much like a small boy who has a job to do, but who, receiving the legacy of a dime, loses interest in that work which may only bring him a nickel...
...system in vogue in South America is modelled on the German plan. It is divided into three grades primary, secondary, and superior. A boy enters the first (I say a boy, there is no co-education in South America) at the age of nine. He remains in the primary grade for two years. Then he enters the secondary department and remains there for eight years. In these eight years he finishes the work done in grammar schools here, and completes that done in high school and college. To do this the work must necessarily be very hard. The average number...
...draft bill, so bitterly fought in Congress, and made a law only against the uproarious dissent of various peace advocates and upholders of the national honor, seems already to have worked some large effect, although not one conscript has been called to the front, nor one single boy been torn away from the cherishing arms of his mother...