Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This branch of national service affords a good opportunity for college men so interested who have been disqualified for any department of the army. The need is urgent and any members of the University desiring more information can secure it from C. Dunham '10, representative of the National Service Bureau, located in University 2, from 1 to 2 o'clock this afternoon...
...buying of a bond is not a gift; it is not a charity nor an adventure in business. It is a sound way of acquiring good interest on good money under the safest security possible. The nation has been asked to oversubscribe the issue. It cannot fall to do so if it desires to further the cause for which our armies shall fight. The subscription must be undertaken by the whole people. The college man, whatever other service he has undertaken, owes this service no less, to back his nation to the utmost with his resources as he will back...
Cadet privates are far too lax in observing this obligation. Cadet officers feel compelled to be lax in demanding its observance. It is a small thing; but many small things mark the mediocre from the good officer...
...misfortune with "America" as a national anthem is not that it is too intricate, nor too subtle, nor too martial. It partakes of all the grand simplicity of a Wesley hymn or a ballad of the people. The misfortune is that, like some other good things, it is not exclusively our own. In England it is known as "God save the king." And in the tuneful land of Germany the words people sing to it are "Heil dir im Siegerkranz, Herrscher des Volkes ganz." It would be somewhat of a pity if at some patriotic gathering Americans doffed their hats...
...never bothered to learn the national anthem, who looks on the flag merely as a holiday banner. Last Saturday the men in the Boston crowds who uncovered as the colors passed were exceptional. Hardly a voice was raised in protest against the hundreds who did not. Stupidly good-natured and lackadasical, they were there to see the glitter and color, to hear the bands play, and, quite naturally, to stare at Marshal Joffre. And in the midst of all the spirit of celebration, to the thousands who lined the streets the flag seemed to have no particular significance...