Word: minds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this is to warn the public not to expect too much. Yet the spirit is there. The members of the corps have been doing extra voluntary drill day after day. Five or six hours is the maximum the average have been under military dicipline and, keeping that in mind, the progress has been excellent...
...shoe begins to pinch, certain factors should be held in mind. France has been unbelieveably bled, and is probably continuing to fight chiefly because of our entrance into the war. But until next spring aid from the United States is more likely to be potential than effective, and therefore much depends upon our attitude and our actions until that time. If France can rely upon us to put ourselves unreservedly into the conflict at the earliest possible moment she will continue to fight...
Once-more Senator LaFollette comes to the fore, this time in a speech in which he attempts to explain his position on the question of the war. Certainly, in the minds of most Americans, his position needs a lot of explaining. Since the declaration of war last April he has consistently opposed every act and bill in Congress which would have assisted the country to wage this war. The fact that he has been able, in advance, to take the opposite side on every question and proposal brought before Congress shows that he is the proud possessor of a mind...
...other words, the nation will be crying for men with professional training. On this account, it is for the Senior of 1918 to consider his duty most carefully. He must bear in mind the chances of service, and it is most sincerely to be hoped that he will not impatiently reach for the sword but consider carefully the fields of commerce, law, and medicine...
...will throw away his poor life, which is all that remains sure to him in eternity, for the dream of a distant ideal. Surely such love is not among the beasts. Man is an animal gifted with mind, set in a world which was not made for mind. He is a being whom we may curse with reverence...