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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gradually coming to learn that war, although more frightful than ever, has not lost all its chivalry. During these many months of artillery and trenching, battle has appeared dreary work without a touch of romance; it has seemed a monotonnous series of incidents no one of which was interesting in itself. One branch of service, however, has lighted up the picture. It is a field where only heroes can serve with success and where heroes can show the stuff they are made of. This field is aviation...
...happiness we wish our friends is not a personal happiness. We cannot expect the coming year to be one filled with pleasure and merriment, for war means death and no matter how successfully we battle the casualty lists are bound to grow as we take over an ever-increasing part of the Western Front. Yet the happiness which can only be attained through much suffering, for the words happiness and victory are synonymous in the national vocabulary. The year we are just beginning is to be a long-remembered one in the history of the United States...
...call to leave college and to plunge at once into something, anything more active and satisfying sounds as strongly as ever. Yet never has there been a time when circumstances more insistently demanded that it go unheeded. It is inconceivable that there will not be camps and more camps for the training of officers, there is already every assurance of another in May. If the under-age man can face his problem with clear-headed foresight, can see his friends and classmates leave, yet make his decision and force himself to stick to his work uncomplainingly, to accept its increased...
...directly concerned by this new scheme, since a commission is the diploma of our military education, the present goal of most undergraduates. Abolition of Plattsburg officers' training camps together with the encouraged promotion of men from the ranks, leaves preliminary instruction more necessary than ever. Whether or not the present system of sending men to Yaphank continues, we know that ultimately a man of sufficient calibre will be an officer, and that thorough preparation will hasten the attainment of this end. The duty of R. O. T. C.'s is to provide not merely candidates for special camps, but soldiers...
...girl, poorly clad, whose pinched face spoke the lack of food." From this point on the old millionaire buys Christmas presents until along toward the end, when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from the mother of the wisp that ever-beautiful sentiment, "God bless you, Mr. Campbell. My dead husband once worked for you, and he said you were a hard man. But he surely was wrong." And all this time, "Somehow his heart seemed very light and young within him." We can stand a story like this every Christmas...