Word: manly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...five o'clock every afternoon, and they are glad to direct the athletic work of those who can report for it. Hence, the opportunity is present for each member of a unit in Harvard University to make himself physically fit,--to do that is a duty encumbrant upon every man who desires to serve his country most efficiently. It is the physical development of the men in general that is wanted,--not the development of a limited number of supermen, who can attain their superiority only at the expense of their work in the military units...
...about a hundred men, and would materially aid many to study under proper conditions. Why not open the library at the Union every evening from six to ten? The Union is now sealed up tight at seven o'clock every evening. It would require the services of only one man for four hours a night to make this valuable facility available for the use of the men at the University...
...torch of battle and look to us to carry it on to victory. That we may not fail in this great mission, let us resolve to do all that is in our power, whether the task be great or small, to train ourselves for the work ahead. The man who will most surely succeed in the army or navy and who will most efficiently discharge his obligation to his fellowmen will be one who neglects not small things in preparation for things that are great; who trains himself to respect and to obey without question his superior officers; who carries...
...This is the happy Warrior; this is he Whom every man in arms should wish...
...sketch produced as the "feature" of such a concert, and I went as his guest. There were semi-singing comedians. Why do all comedians in France paint their faces so broadly red and white? And their songs border on the decent sometimes, remarkable as it seems. One man sang bits from Nanon. He resembled a winter-garden chorus man about the face and timid sweet gestures--but he wore two blesse stripes, had a yellow-and-green four-ragere, several croix-de-guerres, innumerable service stripes, and embroidered on his arm the insignia that denoted he belonged to a machine...