Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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President Eliot, in a short speech, said that the powers necessary to win scholarships and prizes are those which bring success in after life. Physical, intellectual and moral strength are as much needed by the scholar as by the athlete or the soldier. The excellent physical condition of the scholarship holders is a source of great satisfaction and their nervous system must be in good condition. While the desire of pecuniary assistance is a motive which, in some cases, leads men to try for scholarships, it is no longer the leading motive. The difference between scholarships with and without stipends...
Occasional lectures and musicals will be given at the union during the year. On Wednesday, Mr. John Fiske will lecture on "Charles Lee, Soldier of Fortune." On November 22, Assistant Professor Coolidge will talk on the situation in South Africa...
...soldiers engaged in the Philippines could easily spare some of the enthusiasm of their receptions on their return home if the people of the United States would do a little toward enlivening their existence when they are on the other side of the world. Experience in the civil war demonstrated that homesickness is not a disorder belonging to the nursery age. Hundreds of strong men were so oppressed with it that the slightest indisposition often developed alarming symptoms, and the patient pined and died without any apparent cause. This was on our won soil when...
President Eliot spoke in part as follows: War for the private soldier or sailor is at best a dull, coarse, squalid business It can not have any attraction for you, and yet the question-Shall I volunteer?- may become a pressing one within a few weeks or months. I shall discuss that question from the student's point of view...
...first eliminate some of the illegitimate motives for enlistment. The love of adventure is the first. The motive of the hunter is the second. Again, the hope of gaining "martial glory" can have no weight with a rational man. The common soldier and the ordinary line officer get little glory out of the war. No more legitimate is enlistment with the selfish hope of gaining political preferment in the future...