Word: getting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...uniforms have psychological value. Some of us have sons who are wearing them for the first time. We see that the uniforms straighten them up, give them a new sense of responsibility, raise their ambitions and their standards. The benefits are not unmixed with evils. Men now and then get into uniforms who are inclined to overwork the authority which they symbolize and who offend us by vanity or by insolence. These however, are the exceptions, and we may feel confident that they will one day find their due levels. Upon the whole, uniforms in the national service make...
...raid is perfectly simple to carry out successfully if one is willing to use up sufficient ammunition. So we need not feel that we have suffered a defeat. Our troops are but human after all and ten Germans are and should be able to overpower one American. We must get the Prussian idea out of our heads, namely, that we are a race of supermen...
...Eddy began by impressing on his hearers the grave situation of the Allied cause at present. "We are now at our lowest ebb," he said. "With Russia out of it, Italy's latest catastrophe is most serious. Our own American troops in France are a mere handful; we must get our million men across next spring...
...commenting on the fact that all his assistants are University men, Coach Haughton at Camp Devens said, "I don't want the impression made that this is a Harvard affair, but we have only a short time for practice and must concentrate on one system of coaching to get a finished team. To experiment with other coaching systems might impede progress...
...weekly talks for Freshmen have secured the most brilliant speakers obtainable. They have set the time of each meeting from 7 until 7.35 o'clock. In addition Dr. Davison is to be present to lead the singing. If the large majority of 1921 wishes to forego the privilege of getting together for an address which they will long remember and for an inspiring half-hour, they may indulge their wish. In that case we shall have a poor opinion of the intellectual aspirations of the class. We shall not only feel that 1921 is stupid and selfish to its better...