Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...useless to say that Oregon or Arizona or Oskaloosa, Oklahoma, have failed to subscribe their full share. New England is not accustomed to being meted according to the standards of the provinces. Her standards are her own. She has promised that they would be high. They are not high...
...sufficient to say that President Lowell has promised that the Corps will not be broken up for any cause which may now be conceived. The presence of our French instructors assures lessons in the science of position warfare which may not be gained save at the front. The rudiments of American military art have been mastered by the students. A mingling of our own system with French methods may be achieved...
...those hopeless believers in despair who prefer at all costs to credit the worst, it is sufficient to say simply this: Either the camp is going to continue in practical conformation to original schedule or not. If it is, they have nothing to worry about, for they will get what they expected. If it isn't they have either learned a great deal which is of unforgettable value, or they haven't. If they have, they have nothing to worry about, for they are the possessors of wisdom. If they haven't, they are incontestably stupid, and would learn nothing...
...existence, we should know the value of a human life, and how much or little the world is benefitted by the annihilation of that life in seeking tremendous goals. But since we do not know, nor even the shrewdest men, for all their cleverness, dare to guess, we cannot say what value to place on mortality, and whether it is better that men live their allotted term of three score years and ten heedless of the fall and rise of worlds, or whether it is better that men die before their time that great deeds may be accomplished...
...should like to say a few words in regard to the future. It was our intention to run a naval camp during the summer for the boys who were not old enough to enlist, and we were going to run this camp in connection with the R. O. T. C.; but, as the Government has taken away all our military equipment, the plan has fallen through. Our plans for next year are of a somewhat larger and more ambitious scope. We have prevented to the best of our ability our boys from enlisting until they are of age. There will...