Word: forth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been urged lately by some who, being of revolutionistic turn of mind, like to see any change, whatever it may be that we adopt "America" as our national anthem instead of the more martial song to which we now pay reverence. One reason set forth is that the "Star Spangled Banner" is well enough as an anthem in the bloody times of war, but in peace we need some more dulcet sentiment. Another is that "America" is well suited to the orchestration of the people's voices, whereas our present unlegalized national anthem is of too intricate a nature...
...Heil dir im Siegerkranz, Herrscher des Volkes ganz." It would be somewhat of a pity if at some patriotic gathering Americans doffed their hats to the pilgrim fathers, while our cousins of England began, prayers for the salvation of their king, and some well meaning although recent, patriot, burst forth with a paean to "Heil, Kaiser...
Joseph Hodges Choate '52, one of the leading figures in American public life, succumbed to an attack of heart failure at 11.30 Monday night. His sudden death resulted probably indirectly from the strenuous efforts put forth last week to welcome the Allied missions and to promote their complete success...
...noteworthy that those who are proclaiming against the injustice of the new taxes are willing enough that young men go forth to die for the cause of the nation. Such young men are making a sacrifice beyond which man in all his generosity...
This year the Class of 1917 goes forth not with the previsioning of the class prophet, nor the jubilation of the class poet. Many men have gone to the four corners of the country. Many are in France, where the remainder will soon go, fighting for the one cause, although dissevered and apart. They have gone as the workers of the world go, unheralded and unsung...