Word: select
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...know that it is hard to stay at work here. It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingent as a whole. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL
...with the weight of the advice of the biggest men in the country against us, it would be futile to persist. As President Lowell says, we are soldiers, "and the soldier does not select his duty...
...proud of this registration, reflecting that after offering to the service of the country substantially every able-bodied man in the School, maintaining entrance requirements intact and rejecting for deficiency in scholarship the normal percentage of those examined last year, the School is still going forward with a select student body amply sufficient to maintain its best traditions...
...week of practice has resulted in a general improvement in the work of the baseball candidates for the University and 1921 teams. Already some semblance of a nine is being developed by Coach Duffy, and although it has been impossible to select the best man for each position in so short a period, the members of the two aggregations have shown up in excellent style for so early a date...
...cage. Coach Leslabay, who for several seasons has instructed the University fencing team, and who last summer was a captain in the R. O. T. C. and director of bayonet work, will have charge of the bayonet drills this spring. To assist him in this work. Coach Leslabay will select five men from each company who are already proficient in the various bayonet drills...