Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant-Colonel James A. Shannon, former commandant of the R. O. T. C. has been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism. The citation is for his bravery in action near Chatel-Chehery, France, Oct. 5 and 6, 1918, when he led an officers' patrol to a depth of three kilometres within the enemy lines...
...more, therefore, to take care that all of the work which we do shall be our best and nothing else. The spectacular deeds of the battlefield are indeed an inspiration to equal achievement on our part, but it is also true that but few ever blundered into heroism. To most men it comes as a result of the ability to think quickly and act intelligently. Our work in the S. A. T. C. and the Naval Unit is for the most part training toward that end; the coming hour exams are in the nature of an attempt to discover what...
...practical application of his theories. "To Meliboeus" is undoubtedly the finest poem in the number. Otherwise the verse is not distinguished. We feel keenly the absence of Mr. Hillyer. Does Mr. Rogers ("The New Shakespeare,") really think the age heroic? If so, he must surely admit that it is heroism without intelligence...
...this spirit of wanting to get in to Government service, may easily be come a kind of hysteria. It is hard to withstand the inclination to follow the line of least resistance. It will take real moral heroism for many men to hold steadily to their present duties. They owe it, however, to themselves, their parents, their friends and their country...
...matter, for Mr. Chapman's definite knowledge of God may be no more authoritative than the Kaiser's. Yet it is curious to discover something of the old atmosphere of witch-hanging intolerance in the objection of a Harvard graduate to a Harvard memorial to student heroism under any flag. --New York World...