Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have made no payments since your discharge from the army, send in your back payments at once, before it is too late. Remember that you will surely want to be insured sooner or later, and do not let this opportunity which the Government is giving to every discharged soldier and sail or slip through your fingers. Full details concerning time and terms of conversion will be announced as soon as finally determined upon...
...nineteenth year. This compulsory service would not last more than one year, and therefore would not be long enough to have a militaristic influence over our youth. The splendid record of the 26th Division has shown that one year of well applied training is sufficient to make a good soldier out of the average man. The training would be entirely under the control of the government, and would normally come between the last year of preparatory school and the first year of college...
...history of the University commences today. Although the college year was divided into three periods by governmental requirements last autumn, subsequent events have chanced to distinguish each term as different from the others. The greater part of last fall was passed in energetic preparation for war service. The soldier-student was the ordinary, the civilian student the extraordinary. The second term was essentially one of transition. The uniform gradually became less and less familiar. Those forms of college activities which the war has effectively stopped were in process of reorganization...
...about his business pretty much as before, and people think he does not feel his son's death; indeed his wife, remembering the lack of demonstrative affection between father and son, thinks her husband unable to receive messages from the dead. But it is to his father that the soldier appears, telling him that the dead suffer when the living mourn...
...part England has played in this war," Dr. Gregg went on, "will probably never be appreciated by those in America who are accustomed to giving publicity to everything they are proud of. The same silent pride the English soldier takes in his accomplishments also applies to his sacrifices...