Word: feel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...months the men have heard talk of housing and, in not a few cases, it is a local real-estate boom, or builders with something to sell, or some interested concern that is talking loudest, and they feel, not unnaturally, discouraged after these landlord experiences. And all this time nothing is really done. The men endure, the work goes on, but it drags and every day the call from the other side is more insistent. This is something that no Y. M. C. A., no Knights of Columbus, can handle: neither State nor City can do it, only the Government...
...they had been detailed to Camp Grant. That their ability will eventually be recognized there is little doubt; officer-candidates from the Unisity have always led in infantry O. T. C.'s and the men formerly classed as Quota A are men above the former standard. If they feel themselves underestimated it would be well for them to recall the words of a famous American General, who remarked, when detailed to the obscurity of a Kansas cantonment, "I am a soldier; I go where I am ordered...
...There has been neither the material nor the training of times preceding the war. Military considerations have in all cases superseded the demands of effective practice. Nevertheless, there remain the fundamental attractions of every Yale-Harvard game. The teams are equal in strength; the spirit is there; the undergraduates feel that the time for adding to our string of victories has again come. We welcome Yale as our guests. With many of our best men leaving next week for Government service, today's contest affords the undergraduate the one big game of the season. At no time in the near...
...motives which have caused and are still causing many of you to look for a place in the service before you are called are entirely worthy and noble. You feel that you are young, full of strength and enthusiasm. You realize that the first thing to do is to win--and you feel it would be extremely satisfactory both to your feelings and to your reason not merely to seize the chance of serving but to make for yourselves a chance of serving...
...establishment of this system can be taken by the colleges as a recognition of work well done. The college R.O.T.C.'s have at last been accepted as part of the regular military forces of the country. As a pioneer in establishing a training corps, the University may feel especially gratified at this recognition of the nation's need of the colleges...