Word: downes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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For one thing, it took the war to bring the sailor into his own. "I am surprised to find," said a kindly gentleman down in the Square to us the other day, "that your men are gentlemen." He shouldn't have been surprised; but he was just another victim of...
Our army is a citizen army. It is composed of our brothers, our cousins and our sons. Nothing like it has been seen in America even in the days of '61, for at that time the volunteer system alone determined the service. The American Army in France is ourselves in...
Shipbuilders engaged in industry essential to the war's prosecution must learn that laying down their work to bleed the Government for their own selfish benefit is little short of treason. No punishment is too severe for such men. If they cannot freely put forth their best, they may be...
It is regrettable that an ideal system of informal sports will not live at Cambridge. We are athletically spoiled by watching huge contests on whose outcome championships are at stake; we have been brought up on the idea of the importance of the Yale game and with it gone our...
When a man "lies down" in a purely academic course we feel that such laziness is his own business, but when someone does his best to skin drills and thus shirks his military duty, he becomes a liability to the nation. This Corps is a preparatory school for national service...