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Bonfire is one of the most important traditions at A&M, as evidenced by the fact that 75 students were up at 2:30 a.m., hauling logs and constructing the Bonfire as a testament to the pride of the school. We cannot even comprehend such school spirit, and in suggesting that a school get rid of one of its most important traditions is ludicrous...
This whole event was tragic,and I cannot even comprehend the feeling of loss at A&M, except through my friends who knew the injured and dead, but stopping this tradition would say to these students that Bonfire was really not important at all and the students would have died in vain. They did not, and no one should ever suggest that was the case...
...inter-war successes and failures are well known and easily discovered. Of course, even better known is Churchill's and Britain's lonely fight against Germany for two long years in World War II. But it is especially worthwhile that the readers of a college newspaper comprehend the connection between what Churchill did in the 1800's and what...
...finer point on the matter, to comprehend that Churchill's youthful heroism accounts for his mature heroism. Had Churchill not faced down death as a young man, would he have had the courage to face down Hitler in 1940? Had Churchill not learned from and become one of history's great authors, would he have had the eloquence to steel the British people in 1940 against the most ferocious force ever to walk the earth? Churchill never flinched when he and Britain stood alone in June 1940. "Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island...
...political intrigue or what is right or wrong. We care because More is an honorable man in circumstances that are all too real. And the fact that he is the best of what we aspire to be makes his fate even more heartbreaking, even though we fully comprehend the practical reasons for which it all happens...