Word: greatness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...essentially democratic and non-partisan. It must not become a second Grand Army of the Republic, interested only in politics and old soldiers' rights. The real aim must be constructive; it must perpetuate a purpose which will grow even after the men who fought in the Great War are dead. We must not allow the great moral principles for which America went into the war, and which have not received their due recognition at the peace conference, to be forgotten. And any nation-wide organization which is to stand for such ideals must include the college men of the country...
...later advocate certain national policies, it will always attempt to remain out of politics. The third decision reached at the convention was that the membership of the Legion will include all men who served in the army, navy or marline corps of the United States in the Great War, regardless of whether or not they have seen service overseas. The future policy of the Legion will be guided by these three tenets adopted at St. Louis...
...time of the St. Louis meeting in November, we hope to have the national organization completed. Local posts are being formed in every part of the United States under the leadership of the committeemen appointed at St. Louis. It is our hope that every man who served in the Great War will join one of the branches, and we expect that the larger colleges will form units of their...
...preparation now being made for various graduation festivities calls to mind the varied history of these exercises. The first Commencement was held in 1642, and the occasion shortly became an event of great moment. That the affair was properly solemn and sober may be judged from the fact that the first restrictions did not appear until fifty years later, when students were forbidden to eat "plumb-cake," what this delicacy may be is not known but the authorities evidently took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled...
...anything more compulsory is, if possible, to be avoided. Such a course, however, under the Departments of History, Government, and Economics could not fall to be of immense value. College instruction is prone to be too theoretical, but the practical teaching of so vital a subject would fill a great need of the undergraduate. The well-known ability of the staffs of the departments of Government, History and Economics as well as the experience in actual problems which many of them gained during the present war would be certain to make the course popular. The University should not fail...