Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the weight of the advice of the biggest men in the country against us, it would be futile to persist. As President Lowell says, we are soldiers, "and the soldier does not select his duty...
...Even here in patriotic Philadelphia you will see them sometimes salute shamefacedly and furtively, as if they were trying to avoid the soldier who has just saluted them...
...convention will be opened at 3.30 o'clock this afternoon by Arthur Beane '11. At 4 o'clock Corporal George Steward, of Camp Devens, will discuss prohibition from the point of view of the soldier. The relation of the liquor traffic to other social problems will be taken up by Professor L. J. Johnson, of the Engineering Department at M. I. T., who will speak at 4.30 o'clock...
Wherever there are soldiers there is need for books. From the barracks of Camp Devens to the Y. M. C. A. Huts on the Chemin des Dames front, all must be supplied. Military life is, at times, extremely boresome; our soldiers must have some means of mental relaxation. A Y. M. C. A. Hut bare of books is a dull and uninteresting object; with books an atmosphere of ease and homelikeness is obtained, that seems so good to a tired soldier...
...better to develop the boys "back home" for future service than to permit the quality of games to retrograde out of respect for the men who have gone to the front. The youthful tennis player or the freshman or sophomore ball player of today is the soldier of tomorrow. --Boston Transcript...