Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election of a captain for the hockey team is one of those events which keeps our judgment clear. We do not know whether the hockey team will exist next winter; we do not know whether many of the men on the team will be here to play, or whether their new captain will be here to lead them. Yet we must plan as though our present preparation for war is but temporary, to be succeeded by the accustomed round of healthier and more happy events...
...anxiety of the last few months has been the anxiety of indecision. We have not known that to do. There is nothing more wearing on the courage of a brave people than to know that it is bound by the shackles of inaction, that in spite of all its strength it must await the weakness of the most timid of its leaders...
...enemies may be blinded by the Senate's unfortunate delay, and construe that hesitancy as weakness. They should know that no group of head-strong and coldly disloyal men may make the greatest of republics pusillanimous. Those Senators who raised their clamorous voices against war are proof not of our indecision, but of our true freedom. In more autocratic countries they would have been hanged...
...patrol boat unit, for a boat 40 feet long, would be an ensign, a quartermaster, an engineer and four seamen. Two members of such a unit, the ensign and the engineer, are required to have had some experience. The former has to be familiar with coastwise navigation, know how to read charts, and to fix cross bearings. Engineers are to know how to properly handle their engine. Certain men will be enrolled as quartermasters with the understanding that they will learn their duties immediately. Members of the University have the opportunity of forming among themselves patrol boat units, and deciding...
...beast" would so naturally occur to one in place of the ugly "neither beast nor human." But in general, the paper, both in its prose and its verse, shows the right feeling for style. If the authors had more to say than they have here, evidently they would know how to make effective use of their material...