Word: heraldic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...torn regions fill the President with horror;" so cries the Boston Herald in an emotional headline. The statement, of course, is reasonable enough. We might expect that any normal man on viewing the devastation of the most destructive war in history would experience an emotion something akin to horror. Mr. Wilson, in spite of his six years in the presidency, is yet normal and there is nothing sensational in his feeling very much as other...
...number of games which involve traveling might well be reduced. These things have made college athletics unduly expensive in the past and have given all college sport the taint of semi-professionalism. If the system is not to be reformed, it should at least be improved. Boston Herald...
...number of games which involve travelling might well be reduced. These things have made college athletics unduly expensive in the past and have given all college sport the taint of semi-professionalism. If the system is not to be reformed, it should at least be improved. Boston Herald...
Three essential qualifications must govern our new army says President Eliot in an article in the Boston Herald, First, it should be clearly a national force, like the recently enlisted national army, and neither a class force like the national guard nor a body of professional soldiers like the former regular army. In the second place, the large military force which the United States must maintain should be a democratic as well as a national army. That the regular army never was. Thirdly, there is only one principle on which a force of this character can be constructed...
...obeyed without demur--had set himself to face terrifle perils overseas and lay down his life if he must--all for that flag! Hamerton was right when he wrote: "The two most powerful mental stimulants--since they overcome the fear of death--are unquestionably religion and patriotism." --Boston Herald...