Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Invariably produces a certain number of men who distinguish themselves by heroic service. The world has learned to expect such results from soldiers, and therefore it reads of the frequent awards for valor to them without surprise. The rarity with, which civiliane. receive such honors however, causes a much deeper impression upon the mind when these events do occur. Hence, America will pause longer and more approvingly than usual over the news that Frank Herbert Simonds '00, was decorated a knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris on Saturday...
...make a more auspicious beginning than by a resolution to perform the duty and enjoy the opportunity of regular attendance at Chapel? It is a habit which will strengthen and deepen the foundations of character and self-respect. The few minutes each day devoted to a consideration of the deeper problems of life will give infinite reward and satisfaction to him who will but seize the opportunity...
...Canada. Premier Hughes, by means of his keen appreciation of the German menace in all its manifold phases, helped to sound more loudly everywhere the warning that civilization was in peril. Borden, grimly perservering in the single-minded purpose of winning the war, inspired the Empire with a deeper consecration to war duty. No statesman any where faced and mastered problems of greater complexity, and none held more consistently to the courage adopted in the very first moment of peril or caried through to more comprehensive realization the possibilities of his nation for utility in every line of war endeavor...
...training schools for officers at the colleges and in the cantonments and we still have them. They are of untold importance for the supply of a need we could not meet, under existing circumstances, in any other way. Yet at best, they are only a partial substitute for those deeper laid foundations of an officer's efficiency which are possible only with years of training and upon a program of well-rounded development such as Princeton's commandant, Major John A. Pearson, U. S. A., has provided. It is the more nature advantages which Princeton now brings within reach...
What a pity it is that we cannot learn to be a little more unassuming, a little more willing to share the limelight with a worthy partner, to subordinate our selves to the Cause. The individual soldiers are not to be blamed. The fault lies deeper yet. It is with the American public at home who insist upon regarding war as a glorious sport at which our athletes are in nature bound to win. Parade after parade, motion pictures, books, and pamphlets confirm it. Our newspapers describe in four-inch headlines of alternated red and black how five "Yanks" have...