Word: costs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fearful cost of modern warfare, those national powers which once insured victory for a people no longer avail. Valor and fortitude, however great, may win unaided skirmishes, but they may not win wars. The fullest resources of the nation in material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms...
...member of the University, but especially Seniors, may obtain tickets at 90 cents each from A. D. Weld '18, chair man of the Spread Committee. This is at cost price. The tickets will be on sale about June 1. Engraved invitations will be ready May 15, and may also be obtained at Phillips Brooks House for ten cents each...
...Drink, and so far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is Drink," he was thinking of the slowing-down of the production of munitions by the drunkenness of the workman. America, too, has drunken workmen, and they should be made sober. Moreover, the cost of food is, and will be, very great, so that no man should be permitted to spend on liquor the money needed for the sustenance of his family. Let us take to heart the word that comes from Russia to the effect that the savings in her banks have increased more...
...aftermath of war is always made awful with the suffering of those whom war has passed over but has not spared. It is not the men who die in battle, glorious and brave in their oblivion of the selfish animal instincts for self-preservation at any cost, who are pitiful. It is rather those who are left. Of such are the children of French soldiers who have fallen in battle...
...increase in the tuition is not the remedy for the increased expenses and needs of the Law School, for at present the cost of legal instruction, especially to students from the South and West, is as high as should...