Word: dies
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These figures are not complete as the names of several University men have been received as killed, of whom no additional information has yet come in. The casualty lists add new names to this Honor Roll daily, and all those who die in the service before the signing of peace will be included in the final official University list...
...believe that the time will ever come when civilized nations will arbitrate what part of their population shall die," said Professor Edward Warren at the Law School reception last night. Professor Warren said that although he had the highest hope in the League of Nations yet the laws of evolution and the Malthusian theory present an almost impossible problem. He thought that to substitute "the force of law" for the "law of force" would "tax human ingenuity to the utmost." Yet he believed that in time the race might overcome more of its primeval instincts as it had conquered some...
Herbert Fullerton Dickson '22, of New Canaan, Conn, died of pneumonia last Saturday, December 7, at Louisville, Kentucky. He was about to be released from the O. T. C. at Camp Zachary Taylor, when he was suddenly taken ill. Dickson graduated from Milton Academy in 1917, and, after working a year out West, came here last fall and enlisted temporarily in the S. A. T. C. and was soon ordered to Camp Zachary Taylor. He was among the first, if not the first, of the class of 1922 to die in the service of his country...
...made by Lieutenant Morize, who spoke at some length on the added significance of Memorial Day this year, and the lessons we must learn from our dead. He showed how the men who have given their lives to their country teach us not only how to die, but also how to live. "The simile of one runner handing on the torch to the next, never letting the flame die out, is ever true," he declared, "and let us remember that the fewer the number remaining, the higher will mount the flame. I can see you young men reaching out with...
...were torn away 47 years ago. It is a question of right, and right you cannot bargain with. We did not want this war, we did not prepare for it--it was waged against us with the most utter disregard of the laws of humanity and we prefer to die than to fail in our demand for justice...