Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James A. Shannon Post will hold a business meeting in the Trophy Room of the Union tonight at 7.30. The one question to be considered at the meeting is the recommendation of the Executive Committee with regard to the Soldier Bonus Legislation recently passed by Congress, and now up for President Wilson's signature...
...peculiarly adapted to the needs of an army officer; these are given the cadet. The rest of his time is devoted to learning the duties of his profession, horsemanship, marksmanship, drills of the different branches of the service, athletics, and all the other attributes of an efficient, well-trained soldier. Mens sana in corpore sano--a sound mind in a sound body--is West Point's aim. Its whole curriculum is directed toward the accomplishment of that...
Since 1802 West Point has stood, the Military Academy of the United States, acknowledged everywhere as the best of its kind in the world. Its aim has been, is, and always will be, the production of an efficient soldier, a good citizen, a real honest...
...with great pleasure that I take up the sword in defence of your position regarding the soldier-poet of Italy. Your editorial on Gabricle D'Annunzio was unbiased and moderate. Yet, I frankly admit, such a weak position is to me untenable...
...outset I recognize that D-Annunzio is a poet and a soldier of more than ordinary ability, whose pen was fired by the late war. His spirit after the disaster of Caporetto, it is admitted, was admirable and buoyant. But with that, everything in his defence has been said; and, taken by and large, that is not much, for any man who failed to find spiritual inspiration in the late war cannot justify his existence on this earth...