Word: matter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...matter of education is one of timely interest and importance just now, for the war is sweeping away many old ideas and creating new ones that will materially affect the coming generation. We realize now that the interchange of instructors between our universities and those of Germany was not the benevolent scheme that we believed it to be, but an important step in the Kaiser's attempt to influence public opinion here by implanting his peculiar kultur in the breasts and minds of impressionable youth. We are beginning to understand also that in the future we shall be bound more...
...rifle and machine gun amunition, discarded rifles, helmets--everything, in fact, one sees along those roads, though of course it is being rapidly collected by the salvage departments, sorted and sent back to salvage depot for repair, renovation, and reissue--for a use is found for almost everything, no matter how badly smashed and broken...
More than one company commander has told his men that no matter what their view of life in general might be, the work in which they without exception are now engaged is a serious business. It is serious for two very good reasons: first, because the manner in which it is done will determine very largely how soon the peace of the world shall be restored and founded on a durable basis; secondly, because it will mean for every man in service the unmixed happiness or lasting discontent of his later years whether or not he is conscious of having...
Your cheering wishes through Mr. Hayward reached me the twenty-second of June, a week after we had followed our division back from as disagreeable a month of retreating as ever I hope to see. As a matter of fact, I believe sincerely we all shall not see again a retreat coming our way. This morning, too, comes a continuingly excellent French communique. In the little villages having Major du cantonnement (and that means any village where troops are quartered), there is usually a wall, or house-side, whereon are posted the telephoned reports, two, three or more times...
...enrolment in peace times. Many of these men will be enrolled in the school of Military Aeronautics and the new Paymasters' School instituted by the Navy, where instruction will be given exclusively by officers detailed by the Army and Navy Departments. As the university possesses particular facilities in the matter of rifle ranges, trench systems, dormitories, and large new dining halls where men can be fed and housed in large groups there has been a great rush of applicants and the quotas of all units are now filled...