Word: set
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...habit of men (who are cursed with memory and imagination) to romanticize over the past, or to idealize the future. That age in which we live is but a barren period set between sparks of brave accomplishment. It would be well, all men say, to have lived when Napoleon lived; and empires were upbuilded in a day; or to live in succeeding centuries, when man will know, and be master of himself...
This affects the daily welfare of over two thousand Harvard men now in service. Will not Harvard men here in Cambridge give liberally with this in mind? The American Library Association has the management of all the work; sites are already set aside for the buildings, and the architects' plans are complete so that work can begin the moment the money is in hand...
...date for the first issue of the Illustrated has not yet been set, but in will go to press early next week. The Illustrated will appear this year as usual...
...direction. It was a new subject, but the business of teaching was as old as the hills. They immediately sought those who were best in the field of war and brought them into an atmosphere where the idea of thorough instruction was per-eminent. And when the wheels were set going the product was looked at and found to be good. It is being proved good now and will be proved better soon...
...draft law was wisely planned (and it was planned slowly enough by those who are reputedly our wisest men) then the nation does not need in the work it has set out to do the services of men beyond the statutory limits. The first purpose of the draft law was to get the services of all men within the ten years prescribed. The second purpose was to relieve from those not called the stigma of failing their cause...