Word: return
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Columbus Day is the most recent member of our family of legal holidays. Curiously enough, though last established, it commemorates the first event in our history. Tomorrow America is returning Columbus' call though she has dwelt in rather snobbish isolation for the last one hundred and forty years. But she is now making the return call with all possible courtesy...
Columbus opened an epoch when he sailed to America in 1492, America is opening another epoch by sailing with aid and comfort to save Europe and the world from its unruly elements. It is a fitting return for what Europe, in the person of Columbus, did for America...
...their lives to the cause. The government has the same right to ask for a man's money and savings as it has to ask for a soldier's life. But it does not ask that a man give his money, merely that he lend it; and in return he gets a bond which pays interest and which has as its security the property and wealth of the whole United States...
When intensely centralized athletics have been abandoned for athletics which open the field to everyone, may we not think that after the war the return to the old form may meet with some disfavor? If the present state of things is more beneficial in war, it is probable this would also be true in peace...
...simplest, the most proper, and the only return which may be made is to justify the implied confidence of our national leaders of war by service. That permits of no shallow conception of the purpose of the Corps, and no evasion of duty...