Word: dears
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prefer life and the "pursuit of happiness" to the "dictates of humanity" and national honor. What one of you is there to whom the honor of your women is less dear than their lives? And yet you would give a veiled compliment to their sex by calling your country "she". What one of you is there who dares deny the open insult of Germany's defiance? What pacifist would have saved his own life on the Lusitania, to let a child and mother drown? And yet you say "life before honor...
...penalty of a loss of 15 yards is but a mild administration of justice. The player who essays this trick and is caught should be immediately taken from the game and disgraced from the team. He has by his methods put in jeopardy, the victory so dear to the hearts of the undergraduates and alumni. The hard work and efforts of his team-mates he would neutralize and the expenditure of the monies to meet the heavy expenses of the team would be considered as nought. B. A. Jessup. --Brooklyn Daily Eagle...
...cause for which the Republican party is fighting this year is one peculiarly dear to Harvard men who have vanquished the vaunted spectre of indifference and who feel themselves called to a wider, nobler, service than that to which the usual political program leads. For, after all, the tariff, the merchant marine and civil service reform, however long and heatedly they may be discussed are not the dominant issues of this campaign. The pivot on which the election really turns is the maintenance of the national spirit, of that love of liberty which does not seek to become license that...
...proper sense of values move even a stern and warlike Government to release them to the greater service? Because a college president becomes President of the United States, must he revise the order of the grades in the academic climax: For God-for country-and for the dear old college? Let the boys come home, to learn the greater strategy of line bucking, end running and bombardment with drop kick and punt. -New York...