Word: showing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...upon the necessity of this private and voluntary co-operation among Harvard men that we should now insist. It is useless to regret that the Government has not done better by us. It is rather now for us to show that we are resolved to utilize to the utmost the many advantages with which we are still left. The Government has not been ungenerous. In a time of scarcity it has left us our officers and held out the hope of equipment. And the University and the alumni have been very generous in encouragement and aid of every sort. They...
...enveloped by unkind fate in the dark storm of war, we are threatened by irreparable loss. The Senior Picnic has gone, the Pudding Show has gone. And many of our classmates have gone, often leaving behind the sad memento of their debts. Yet the worst of all may overwhelm us. The goodies will...
...Paris, however, looks thoroughly chastened. The crowds in the subway, on the boulevards, show on their faces that the war has borne heavily on them--they look tired and careworn, each doing his share in the struggle, and each weighted down by the thought of the Herculean necessity for victory. The soldiers and officers seem unable to escape from the thought of going back to the trenches--they are imprisoned by the immense forces playing against each other, being mentally as well as physically crushed by the intense pressure at the front...
...spirit of patriotism united with a capacity for effective help. I do not doubt that we shall find in Harvard, Yale and Princeton and the other universities the same inspiring devotion for the cause of the country that the great universities or England, Oxford and Cambridge, showed at the outbreak of the war and have continued to show in all the dark days of gloom that England has had to pass through...
...always a refreshing thing to hear a young critic express his criticism in a positive manner. There is entirely too much of the half-hearted, uncertain sort of judgment that says: "It seems to me," "I think," et cetera. Better far to show your colors and come boldly out with "It is," because everyone understands criticism as an expression of little more than personal opinion. The authority of it and the respect we give to it rests on the individual. Mr. Wright, then, who indeed does not hesitate to state his views with perfect assurance in his criticism of "Major...