Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have written thus far of domestic issues. These, however, have at times been overshadowed by international questions--the Mexican problem, and the problem of our relations with Great Britain and Germany. As to the first, the issue seems clear. On one hand, there are a great number of people who, in the course of the European war, have been gradually working themselves up into a "heroic mood," and who seem to feel that at a time when most of the world is at war, it is somehow unmanly for us not to be doing some fighting. They feel that...
...Quimby '18, of last year's University crew, continues to recover from the effects of his attack of infantile paralysis. Although he is still confined to his bed, the paralysis is gradually disappearing. Over a month and a half of steady improvement makes it seem very probable that he will be back in college after mid-years...
...control of the oil wells and wheat fields of the lower Danube. That Germany was surprised by the entry of Rumania into the war was made clear by the removal of von Falkenhayn; whether von Hindenburg can rectify the error of his predecessor is doubtful. Yet it would seem already that there was little military foresight to accompany the Allies' successful political coup in the Balkans...
Soldiers Field is already dedicated to those soldiers of the Civil War whose memory is enshrined there. It would seem a pity to difute that interest by adding other tablets. M. ELLIOT...
...never fully mastered the drill regulations and the routine work of a soldier will make a first class officer--even though he be only a second lieutenant. At the same time a good officer requires a certain amount of theoretical knowledge and some idea of military policy. It would seem, therefore, that it might be possible to arrange such a division of the time spent in theoretical and practical work as would prove consistent with the War Department's scheme for training reserve officers, and at the same time satisfy all requirements for counting the course towards and academic degree...