Word: cannot
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...charge of all the base work, such as the collection and organization of supplies and materials. In this class, the members of which hold at least the grade of captain, entrance is possible now. However, such work is most suited to business men of experience, and the Business School cannot, in the short time available, prepare...
...such a time as the plans for the mobilization of citizen forces are promulgated. To leave now is in every way Inadvisable and can serve no useful purpose. No university or college I know of is putting in more hours than Harvard in purely military work, and the students cannot do better than take advantage of the opportunities you are now offering them to prepare for service. LEONARD WOOD...
From the first I was impressed by the amount of space allotted to verse in the Advocate--a paper with poetic traditions, if ever paper had them--and I cannot see why one whole issue should not be devoted to it from time to time. Surely it is not necessary to remind the editors that the qualities that make vital all literature exist in what we roughly classify as poetry, to a far higher degree than in what, with equal roughness, we classify as prose. As an ex-editor, I sympathize with their professional zeal for "balance," while realizing that...
...score of other organizations for defence the call now comes insistently for men. It is vain and contrary to the needs of the hour to point out that the demand for men might have been in part forestalled by a more vigilant or more far seeing national legislature. We cannot supply the present with the failure of the past...
...German arms received the lethal blow when the United States declared war. They cannot now help but fail. It has been a boast of the Hohenzollerns that each ruler added some bit to the Prussian land. The last of the Hohenzollerns will live to see that long and cruelly-wrested land snatched from him again. Will he remember Dixmonde when he hears the troops of the five great Powers crossing the Rhine? Will his heart bleed for Louvain afresh when the allies of democracy march through the plains of Prussia...