Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Roosevelt, ever vigorous and logical, threw the whole-weight of his passionate personality and far-reaching fame into the scale for righteousness. From the first, his fervid and uncompromising loyalty to Allied principles, finding expression in lucid eloquence, has been like a furnace keeping the nation in an heroic glow of patriotic exaltation...
...placing of the colleges on a war basis, and the interruptions caused by the influenza epidemic, have made this an abnormal year in the life of the University. For the first time there was an actual suspension of practically all college activities. The University seemed less like itself than ever before in its history...
...ought not to be overlooked. It has been training hard since the opening of College, and has been drilling early every morning,--more frequently and in many respects more frequently and in many respects more intensively than the R. O. T. C. of last year. The vigorous and business-like way with which the men went into the work has won the deserved commendation of their commander and many others...
...will not be discharged, like the men in the S. A. T. C., and the Marine Section, but they will be placed on inactive duty, without pay. Before being placed on inactive duty, each man must have a strict physical examination, an examination for conformation of rating, and must then turn in all equipment, and settle all accounts with the University...
...French army is learning baseball rapidly. They like for its speed and excitement, but they have found American terms very difficult. A poilu simply cannot wrap his tongue around such words as "catcher", "base hit", and "umpire...