Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...freedom. It is upon the young men that the fate of any nation rests. When the war first struck England, our college men, many of whom were already officers in the army, were immediately put into action. They were among the first sent to France. To them belongs the honor of breaking the rush of the enemy. It was a critical moment and they responded nobly. Many were killed, but a greater thing than life--freedom--was saved...
...death of a man who has lived a long and complete life, fulfilling with honor the task he was set to do, has in it something of climax which robs the inevitable end of much of its sorrow. Yet even such consolation may avail little in considering the death of Joseph H. Choate...
...chosen twentieth should regard themselves as privileged above those of their own age whom the draft passed over. They will be called upon to set a standard in honor, in fortitude, and in strength that other armies, following after them, may look to as an ideal...
...been recorded in an old saying that all is fair in war. But such tricks are of the fairness of the red Indian, to whom treachery was often synonomous with honor. Conflict seems to be losing even that poor show of mercy which has been practised in other less bitter wars. "War to the knife, and the knife to the hilt...
...Marshal has himself said, America in welcoming him is not welcoming an individual, but a nation. We pay all honor to Joffre because in him we see France, that splendid nation which, for the existence of her life and her republican ideals, has fought a great fight against the terrible power of Germany. Joffre is the representative of that people which our people honors with all dignity, as one strong man honors another...