Word: foe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place in the scheme of young men's activities. Yet what football there is, will undoubtedly be well worth watching. In the middle ages the CRIMSON players used to shudder at the Eli menace. Today "the informals," those loyal survivors of the sport in the University, are facing a foe more formidable than the Bulldog in his halcyon days. Whereas "All American" elevens have in the past been mythical, they may in the near future be actual organizations. Each military cantonment plans to have its team...
...wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth tower on wheels against the foe...
...selected, condemnation of the favoritism shown will rise to damnation. And it is a further reasonable supposition that should those officers, having undertaken with their men the defense of a portion of the battle line, by some singular feat of courage or skill force the retirement of the foe which opposes them, the Germans will then be accused of having conspired with the Government, the War Department and fate to advance the honor of these hundred and thirty men, over more deserving men who have failed of everything...
...well as clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which he so little regards. Other men, who prize more highly honor and liberty, may preserve their own honor and liberty, and incidentally that...
...honoring other men, will follow that first flag, and Germany will see the Stars and Stripes flying at the forefront of armies. Yet some measure of sanctity must be accorded that pioneer banner, adventuring out on unknown fields against a people which we have never before held as our foe...