Word: says
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...flew till 11 o'clock and then went back to A--. I had one flight with P. R. We went up for combat work. It was certainly interesting, to say the least. Each of us tried to get into position where he could shoot the other. I would see him coming, for instance, and just as he got in range, perhaps 400 yards, and above and behind me in good position for him, I would try to turn sharply under him and after he passed above make a renversement and be behind him and under his tail. A machine cannot...
Premier Clemenceau said, "I know the French peasants well. They ask me one thing, 'Will we win?' Assuredly, I say. 'Then we will go on,' they answer...
...know that in the past the Harvard Regiment and the R. O. T. C. have done admirable work, but I am not competent to speak on what is being done at the present time. As to what boys should do about enlisting I can only say what my own four boys did is what I believe to be the best policy. I am exceedingly proud of the course which they followed and the cause for which they are fighting. "If I had my way, every young man from 19 to 21 years of age would be put into a training...
...reason for our overemphasis of such a philosophy in, let us say, America, is, I believe, an extreme and shocked reaction away from the opposite extreme of a purely materialistic interpretation of history which would rob us of God and a despotically socialist state which would deprive us of all freedom...
...likened it to the process of eating. Educative food is held out by the faculty in conveniently-sized morsels to be devoured by the student. The latter, prompted either by Greek-letter or pecuniary motives, seldom by others, swallows what is profered to him with no questions. Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated. And so it goes on,--this relentless pursuit after courses and credits, equivalent almost to dollars...