Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University hockey squad has started preliminary practice on Soldier Field. Until the ice forms the squad will play association football. When the ground freezes the hockey rinks that are being prepared in the Stadium will be flooded, and at that time the Freshman candidates will be called out. Immediately after the Christmas recess the scrub hockey teams will be organized and soon afterwards upper-class captains will be appointed. The games of the upper-class championship series will be watched and men who do especially good work will be taken onto the University squad...
...spent more than thirty years in the regular army. He knows West Point from his life there as cadet and superintendent, but he is also thoroughly acquainted with the American army from service in this country and in the insular territories. He is a student as well as a soldier, and his books on Indian life and languages are valuable contributions to native anthropological knowledge...
Otto Gierke, delegate from the University of Berlin; soldier, historian jurist; who as a youth won the iron cross at the stage of Mezieres, and as a man has compelled the admiration of all scholars by his unmatched knowledge of legal and political thought since the Middle Ages...
...aggrandizement. It was entered on as a solemn duty. The soldiers entered the ranks reluctantly and left gladly. They served in the spirit of the Shakesperian soldier, who said 'Cheer me on that we may reap the harvest of peace from this one act of bloody war!' They found treason and left loyalty, and made the name of American citizenship the proudest passport that a man can early throughout the entire world...
...background for the story, which deals with the love affairs of the Princess. Many episodes in the play hardly noticed by the average spectator, have historical bearing; for instance, the part of Eckhoff, which Hanfstaengl played splendidly. The play does not say what every German knows, that this soldier who joins the actors, was to become the greatest actor of his time...