Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...statement which Marshal Joffre made to Major Azan last Saturday as the two soldiers were bidding each other good-bye has just been given out. Although delivered in an informal way, and not with the intention of being published, his remark is here repeated as representing the Marshal's real opinion more than any speech made in public. The statement, as he delivered it to Major Azan before his train left, was as follows...
...opportunity for men outside of the University to join the Corps is now open. It need not be stated here what are the advantages which will accrue to the cadet from the system of training so ably laid down by the tactical staff of the Corps. Men who were good enough for Plattsburg, whether they are Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, Colby, Bates, or Tufts men, will have an unparalleled oportunity to prove what they may do. Nor is admission limited to college men. Non-college men of ability and character may here show their greater fitness to be officers above...
...tell them to be strong, to fight a good fight, to be loyal, to be valiant...
...South America we have no elective system. Every conceivable subject must be taken. We cannot specialize in any one department. If a man is going to be a lawyer, he must take all the courses in mathematics and chemistry just the same. This system does not produce as good specialists' as yours does, but it does produce a more cultivated man. An individual, after he has been educated in South America, has an extraordinary broad and liberal education. His interests have been cultivated so that he is not centered on one thing, but on many...
Such arguments are foolish. Why not face the fact simply, we Easterners, that we have failed to make good our wordy promises...