Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Heil dir im Siegerkranz, Herrscher des Volkes ganz." It would be somewhat of a pity if at some patriotic gathering Americans doffed their hats to the pilgrim fathers, while our cousins of England began, prayers for the salvation of their king, and some well meaning although recent, patriot, burst forth with a paean to "Heil, Kaiser...
Whether the war clouds which gather now so darkly will burst in storm, or whether we shall yet continue for an indefinite period of weeks or years our troubled peace, we cannot tell. Our plans must be made for all possibilities. The plan for training officers will prove no less valuable if war shall not come now. From men trained in this manner may be formed the nucleus of the national army which most realize must come in a short time. We are not primarily preparing for war tomorrow; we are not preparing for war against Germany. We are preparing...
...With a burst of enthusiastic, sincere support for the football team today the undergraduate body can in part make up for the disgraceful lack of such encouragement during the past season, and give the eleven the necessary confidence to insure a victory on Saturday. At the Brown game the unorganized cheering of the sailors from the Navy Yard was impressive and inspiring compared to the desultory efforts of the Harvard cheering section. One would have thought the undergraduates cared little whether the team representing their own university won or lost. Last Saturday's game might as well have been played...
...vogue among the polite countiers of Kubla Khan when the game of football was played with a rough stone, kicked about the wild British moors by half-naked tribesmen. And chess will remain a noble game when the last goal post has rotted and the last pigskin has burst. To make chess less than football is to make the immortal dependent on the strictly finite. Chess is the mother of all games...
...Four or five hundred have already signed up for the Plattsburg Camps. Others cannot attend the camps and yet have had no military training. These are the men who should pause and regard the facts of our relations with Mexico in a sober light. Rushing to enlist in a burst of patriotic enthusiasm will do no good until the government at Washington has made the final decision and the need for untrained as well as for trained men is expressed...