Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...words were found written on the margin of a book of poems taken from the body of a dead Australian soldier, who, in his dying, had accounted for six of the enemy...
...Cross in France last summer. He explained the work which the Red Cross is doing in furnishing medical aid and hospital supplies in at least half of the hospitals in France. "But beside helping the wounded man, it does work of infinite value for the well soldier behind the lines and in the rest camps, and also for the ten million homeless, ill-fed and wandering children, without parents, schools or churches. For these children the Red Cross is doing work of untold importance. It is also taking care of the old people who are being sent into France...
Equally well selected and equally various are the subjects. One finds Rupert Brooke's "The Dead" and "The Soldier." Cammaert's "Song of the Belgians," and Bourdillon's "The Call." One poem seems, for the moment, a bit out of place in the Collection--Miss Burr's "Holy Russia," a glorification of the new (now wavering) democracy...
After a simple dedication "to the mem- ory of Alan Seeger, our soldier-poet, who met death in July, 1916, fighting for the high cause to which now all America is consecrated," the calendar contains a page for each week, and on each page a bit of war verse. Wisely governed by the rule that a poem should be given completely or not at all, the editor has collected the best of the shorter poems dealing with the war. Most of these are the work of American authors, but France, Belgium and England have each at least one representative...
...famous 41-0 team comes back to his old B gladden the hearts of all Harvard men. Since Mahan has left us there been a considerable void in University teams a void that may never be filled. He was the greatest back that ever wore the crimson on Soldier. Field, at least as far back as any of us can remember. Now before he bucks the Hindenburg line, he has decided to practice on the Navy Yard. That the upperclassmen will be in the Stadium goes without saying; they have seen Mahan in action before and know what a treat...