Word: manhoods
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Perhaps no German institution seems so little in need of improvement as the Germany army. The army is the principal training school of national manhood and public devotion. It will remain so, for unfortunately there is little hope that after the war there will be less need of military preparedness. Whatever is the outcome of the present conflict, it will leave for many years to come a vast accumulation of hatred, jealousy and mutual fear among all European nations. Germany, as the main butt of all these fears and hatreds, will agree to a reduc- tion of armament only...
Though you have but crossed the threshold, you are so much better prepared to carry on the task of manhood service than are those who have been less fortunate, less inspired, than yourselves; and your preparation will mean, in time, that you will count as greater factors in avoiding war, or lesser sufferers if it should come...
...beam-work, as you have manifested in the past few months. Your interest and your loyalty have made my work a pleasure; and I shall ever treasure the memory of our association together, and the honor of commanding a body which so conspicuously represents the best type of American manhood. CONSTANT CORDIER, Captain, U. S. Army, Commanding...
...parade and when it drilled today in the Stadium it quickened the pulses and brought cheers to the lips of all persons who watched. And the response awakened by these boys was the natural response which earnest men and women cannot help giving to the strength of young manhood when they see it embodied before them in a way that proves the surviving force of the nation, and that shows determination not only to hold to ideals but also to link them with deeds...
...which the heroine throws over the Open Hearth rather than lose her life-long lover, leaves a suspicion that perhaps the author retains a conviction that to be a Boy Scout Leader or the Coach of an Uplift Nine is after all the noblest ambition of Young American Manhood. Mr. Murdock's story is shorter, and laid right here in Cambridge--Memorial clock strikes nine, and the streets are covered with slush, and all that sort of thing--but it is still further away from life as most of us know it. There is a touch of the melodramatic...