Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Thus the great war has made peoples that were esteemed cowardly heroic, and peoples that were esteemed commercial idealistic, and peoples that were esteemed senescent mighty and uncon-querable. So much the war has done to England and America and France...
...have been relieved of the volunteer system, which is heroic, bombastic, and quite wasteful. In its place we have substituted the draft system, much less inspiring, but quite necessary in this age of specialization. Just as all men of twenty-one to thirty-one have been drafted for our martial armies, so men over thirty-one have been drafted to continue the business of our country. And in like measure boys under twenty-one have been drafted to continue their education, that the class of intelligent men may not be diminished in a future decade...
...five continents are tossed in war. Does not this heroic age in which we live arouse some fire from an uninspired generation? Homer, as the legend goes, wrote the two great epics about the little feuds of a handful of half-barbaric and rather unhygienic Hellene chieftains. Their war was no more than a tribal war, yet the world for three thousand years has spoken, when it would speak of grand things, of Ilium...
...other hand the "Star Spangled Banner," while revered by all, like the Sultan of Turkey, is, like the Sultan of Turkey, known to few. When the band or the orchestra strikes up the first bars, we stand, remove our hats, and begin valiantly with the heroic query of "Oh say, can you see?" Finding that no one can see we relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed...
...many miles between us and the long, winding line of trenches in Europe seem a short step when the tragic news of some comrade's death is flashed to us. The reality of the stern trials and the heroic sacrifices demanded by the great game of war is vividly brought home. Ronald Hoskier of the Junior class is the first Harvard undergraduate to make the final and glorious sacrifice for the cause of humanity and democracy. The many acquaintances of Hoskier sincerely mourn the loss of a friend whose exceptional qualities were recognized and admired by all who came...