Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Shannon also stated that he knew of no plans for the establishment of a cavalry unit here. "There are very considerable obstacles in the way of organizing such a unit. Besides getting the appropriations from the Government for the purchase and maintenance of horses, stables, etc., I know of no suitable grounds on which to drill. I do not believe that Soldiers Field could be utilized for cavalry drill because the horses would soon cut the ground to pieces...
...something at a time when many ties which have been close are severed to know that the oldest and the strongest bonds remain. The messages received yesterday by President Lowell from the heads of an old English and an historic French university remind us at this hour of the debt we owe to other peoples, and to older civilizations...
...advise Harvard students continue their present University work and military training until such a time as the plans for the mobilization of citizen forces are promulgated. To leave now is in every way Inadvisable and can serve no useful purpose. No university or college I know of is putting in more hours than Harvard in purely military work, and the students cannot do better than take advantage of the opportunities you are now offering them to prepare for service. LEONARD WOOD...
...individuality. But it will remove those barriers of appearance which we have to some extent erected against the tides of democracy. It would be wrong to hope that every man in uniform will hail another as a kindred spirit, to be granted his friendship and his intimacy. Yet we know that true men will see other men on a plane of equality...
...conquered the vain idealism of peace, we will go into war as we have always gone into war: seeking no end but the utmost end, stopping not one stride short of victory. We will put a new idealism into the conflict of national ideals, so that other peoples may know the greatness of our national spirit, and wonder as they admire at the emerging of our power...