Word: grim
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tide of college activities beyond the regular courses. At that time practically every activity which in some degree did not spring from military courses was either non-existent or well along the road to become so. The ink was searcely dry on the armistice papers, however, ere the grim spectre of militarism was promptly forgotten in the eager planning for a speedy return to the ante-bellum order of things. The steady maturing of these hastily made plans is swiftly removing the "war paint" from the University...
...Behind all this grim purpose of winning the war, my friends, lies the opportunity to demonstrate not only force, which will be demonstrated to the utmost, but the opportunity to demonstrate character, and it is that opportunity that we have most conspicuously in the work of the Red Cross. Not that our men in arms do not represent our character, for they do, and it is a character which those who see and realize appreciate and admire; but their duty is the duty of force. The duty of the Red Cross is the duty of mercy and succor and friendship...
...grim situation on the western front demands men. The onsweeping hordes of the enemy can be stopped only by the bodies of men, the will power of men, the exalted spirit of men. The battle may be lost for lack of other things. It cannot be won without men. When the enemy is stopped, as he must and will be stopped, as he must be driven back whence he came, overwhelmed and crushed. That will require more men--men by companies, by battalions, by regiments, by divisions, by armies. The victory for humanity and righteousness will...
With the launching of a great German offensive upon a fifty-mile front, active fighting in the West has again become a grim reality. The Central Powers, victorious at every other point, seem now to match their strength with the enemy in the hope of striking a decisive blow toward a favorable termination of the war. Yet the general military situation makes it very possible that the present movement is but a feint in the concealment of another motive...
...youths heed its call, and trudge bravely forth to do his bidding. From shop and home they come, from the canons of great cities, from the gray cloisters of the universities, all march behind the great van of the tyrant, all with high ideals and hearts undisturbed by the grim realities around them. For theirs is the task of cleansing the modern Augean stables, and with mighty arm and mind they bend to the task...