Word: gallant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been transferred from the old Battery A. They were not less spirited than their senior officers. A good example is Captain H. Frothingham, commander of Co. F, 104th Infantry. An old football player, he used to go into battle as if he were going into a Yale game. For gallant conduct while under fire, he was promoted to a captaincy. He would have made a success in any army, and there were many other Harvard men just like...
...himself a solution of the perennial problem of 'how to bring about a closer relation between teacher and student.' Throughout his life he had struggled heroically against the galling restrictions imposed by a physical infirmity, and achieved results which would have been impossible for a spirit less gallant. When the great war came, and it was evident that he could not go to fight he manfully stuck to his post at Harvard, devoting all his energies to maintaining the continuity of instruction, and to keeping alive the undergraduate organizations with which he was most closely identified. This was his contribution...
...obvious is the ardent wish of every Harvard man that in time there be erected a fitting and enduring memorial which may ever stand as a concrete tribute to those who fell--a tribute that will recall to successive generations of Harvard men the glory and honor due that gallant group of three hundred and four soldiers and sailors...
...struggle around the ancient Flanders town symbolizes the British tradition in the war as the struggle for the Douamont and Vaux fortresses and Dead Man's Hill symbolizes the tradition of the French. It was at Ypres in November, 1914, that the British regulars, the "Old Contemptibles" of the gallant first expeditionary force, stemmed the German attack led by the crack regiments of the Prussian Guard and beat them back with terrific losses. It was at Ypres in April, 1915, that the First Canadian Division beat off the first gas attack and, in the words of General French, "saved...
...Federal House of Representatives has passed the Susan B. Anthony Bill, the first step towards the constitutional amendment enfranchising the women of the nation. During the past five years the suffragists have made a gallant fight for political equality. Some aspects of that fight have been condemned. Others have been praised. The net result was the passage by the lower branch of the National Legislature of the desired bill...