Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...moral values that I least admire. It usually implies a subjection of your own sentiments and convictions. A high enterprise needs no appeal to loyalty, and an unworthy one is often supported by it. The agitator that dies for the hopeless cause, or the soldier that falls by the shot-torn flag, never thinks of loyalty. It is his mission in life, and he does not question it. If football is merely played for the loyalty it inspires--spring the trap and let it perish." The article supporting Professor Royce's view lacks the worst faults of the opposing statement...
...deals with a family of actors, father, son and grandson. The grandfather, who is a very old man, has renounced the stage and become infatuated over the subject of religion. He refuses to allow his grandson to go upon the stage and tries to turn him into a soldier. But the young man, who has wonderful dramatic genius, escapes from the army, deceives his family, deludes his grandfather, and by a clever trick takes his father's place on the stage of the Theatre Francais. After an outburst of fury, he is forgiven and awarded the hand of his cousin...
...William Crawford Gorgas, son of a Confederate soldier, first lieutenant, captain, major and colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army, chief sanitary officer of the Isthmian Canal Zone, today the most successful demonstrator of the present efficacy and future promise of preventive medicine...
...represent them honestly. The best test of a man's real worth for public capacity, and one of its most broadening influences, is contact with common life, for the intellectual and moral force of the American people is the greatest that the world has ever seen. The American soldier, standing as the does for self-sacrificing devotion to the republic, is a good example of the attitude that should be taken in public life. It is work, after all, hard, continuous work, that makes public men great...
Reserved seat tickets at 75 cents each, for seats in the wooden stands, will be on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's, and Wright & Ditson's in Boston until 12 o'clock, and at the gate at Soldier's Field after 2 o'clock. Tickets admitting to the Stadium may be obtained at the gate for 50 cents each. H. A. A. tickets will not admit, but hockey season tickets will be accepted as this game takes the place of the game originally scheduled with the University of Toronto...