Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Only a few weeks later this "Roi de l'Air," as he was known to the army, who had walked so often through our own College Yard, was dead on the field; shot down in an heroic effort to help his fellow-aviators-"a glorious death, face a Pennemi, for a great cause and to save a friend...
...questions--the Mexican problem, and the problem of our relations with Great Britain and Germany. As to the first, the issue seems clear. On one hand, there are a great number of people who, in the course of the European war, have been gradually working themselves up into a "heroic mood," and who seem to feel that at a time when most of the world is at war, it is somehow unmanly for us not to be doing some fighting. They feel that our differences with Mexico ought to be made an affair of honor. President Wilson's view seems...
...shun. Granted that the hour was most inappropriate, and that the service was badly advertised, the fact remains that scarcely 75 men were interested enough to come to a meeting of this kind at which the speakers were the President of the University and one of her most heroic graduates. Major Higginson. And so the service-failed utterly of being the splendid and triumphant memorial which a packed Chapel would have made...
Another short address was given by Major Henry Lee Higginson '55. In his speech he extolled the spirit, the bravery and the sacrifice of the men who gave their lives for a cause in which they thoroughly believed. He instanced several experiences in the Civil War to show the heroic character of a soldier who gives up his life in battle. He said, "These men have performed a great sacrifice. They fought because they loved freedom and hated oppression. Our country mourns the loss of their lives...
...most splendid of failures, the Gallipoli campaign. The framework of the story is the brilliant career of the First Newfoundland Regiment, from which the author was parted only by a wound, leading to his honorable dismissal from the service. Anecdotes of other regiments and of brave comrades, tales of heroic deeds, and convincing description round out the tale...