Word: dawdlers
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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Professor Moore started his talk with the story of a young fellow in the Ambulance Service who was killed at Salonica, but whom the war changed from a dawdler to a man. "War is good," stated Professor Moore, "in that it makes men. This war has called many from past and present classes of the University, and in so far as they hold themselves true, the war will make them. But if they do not, it will just as surely unmake them as the Civil War ruined so many young men of that day, making them good-for-nothing after...
...justify himself in a year's time should the immitigable call to duty come, and find him wanting, an incompetent in his country's need, a dawdler among the frivolities of culture...
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