Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...colleges were approved of by the meeting unanimously, and the recommendation will be carried to the meeting of the National Collegiate Association to be held in Washington, D. C., in August. The resumption of intercollegiate athletics under present conditions, however, would at the best be difficult and revolutionary. By far the greater part of the men who have composed the athletic teams of the larger universities have entered some form of military service, and the teams which would represent these universities would necessarily be composed of much less suitable material. It would be necessary to take certain steps in regard...
...have passed beyond the bounds of the imaginable in contriving ways whereby men may be in great quantities and instantaneously blotted from existence. They have not yet found a way whereby men may be restored mechanically or by the gross. The mystery and the conservation of life is always far greater than the mystery and accomplishment of death...
...matters far lighter than honor to a Marshal of France have the friendships of nations been built...
...victim was seen to pray as the fires rolled over his flesh. To what God did he pray? The South is reputed religious, far more so than this Unitarian and materialistic North. Did the white man's God hear those agonizing prayers? Or does the negro worship an impotent Diety...
With that change in manners of life, and perhaps in conception of life, which has come with the war and the subsequent intensive and universal training, there has come an upheaval in our democratic standards. Most men do not realize that a few weeks have worked a far change in their opinions, so subtle, and yet so enduring, has been that change...