Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...graduates are always welcomed, for they see in us a memory, however slight of that which they once were. Although they are sure that in the golden mirage of their youth they were never so callous, nor so ignorant, nor so self-satisfied. And so, in mutual reflection and compassion we shall meet each other...
...before the cold and searching judgment of the future with only our accomplishment to justify us. If the national courage which animates our people in this year, 1917, be slight or lacking, not all the honor of past years, not all their striving, not all their victory, will avail to condone our own failure...
...should not, in being proud of our flag and our national anthem, fall to the level of the rabble, which hoots, throws stones, and riots when some slight form is omitted, not from an exalted and generous conception of the meaning of their nation and a desire to preserve its honor, but simply because, being a rabble, it loves to hoot, throw stones, and riot...
Enlistment in this contingent will be for the duration of the war. The units have been thrown open to members or graduates of the University who have slight physical disqualifications barring them from other service. Minor defects in sight and feet will probably be over-looked...
...history will not be out of place. When the Spanish-American war broke out, Porto Ricans looked to this country as their liberator, and a wave of Americanism swept across the country. We tried hard to become Americans in thought as well as in fact. A slight glance at our legislation between 1900 and 1904 will convince anyone of the truth of this statement. We went as far as to give more importance to English than to our own language, Spanish, in our schools. The Republican Party, with its belief in statehood for the island, controlled the country until...