Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...since the war started is bound to be interesting. The French press has had no small part to play in this great conflict. Upon it has the government depended to a large extent for informing the French people what was going on, and yet keeping up their spirit and resolution. As may be expected, this was a difficult task, for with German hordes pouring in upon them, with a horrible and thorough war being fought on their territory, the French people could not be salved into determination by honeyed words alone. It required straight from the shoulder talk, with logic...
...Clearly there were material gains; part of the Zeebrugge mole was destroyed and the channel at Ostend blocked up, but the chief advantages of the raid were moral. It will probably not take the Germans long to repair the damage, but they will now have to face a reawakened spirit in the British Navy that bodes no good for them. For a long time Zeebrugge and Ostend seem to have held the British in the spell of inaction; they have been regarded as impregnable fortresses that it would be folly, to attack, but now it is clear that they...
...first place, there must be a new and better spirit of discipline. To say the least, the appearance and actions of the corps at lectures and drill during the winter months has left much to be desired. Only too many men have shirked duties wherever possible. Everyone must learn and live the fact that discipline is the basis of all military training. Under a system of permanent officers the last vestige of excuse for laxity has disappeared...
There is necessary, in the second place, a spirit which will lead every man to derive the fullest benefit from all instruction laid before him. We need men who will take that active interest which will insure an added utility to their country. To take advantage of the training offered at Harvard is not only an obligation but a privilege. In the next month and a half the man who fails to make the most of his time not only fails his country but minimizes the efforts of his fellows. Military training means coordination. Every man must pull...
...first flush of patriotic ardor which swept through our colleges last April has passed away and perhaps we should rejoice to be rid of its less reasonable manifestations. But in this cooler, grimmer April of 1918 we must not forget its essential spirit. Indeed, the fact that every patriotic individual has a part to play in the war is far more apparent in the thirteenth month after our entry than it was in the first. Then the French were wresting the Chemin des Dames heights from the Germans, the British were driving the enemy at Arras, while revolutionized Russia...