Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These few words fully express the whole spirit of Prussianism. The training of years has done its work. The German has been led to pour out his blood to as full measure as any of his opponents, but he knows not why. As he pays tribute to his comrades who have fallen, the most glorious thing he can say is that they "died for their Kaiser." What free men will offer their lives to the ambitions of a single leader? It passes the imagination of us who are fighting for great ideals that such a thought could be widely accepted...
...indeed tragic that a great race should have passed under the control of such a spirit, so utterly repugnant to human ideals of manhood, so utterly hopeless to the very future of mankind...
...sons. Nothing like it has been seen in America even in the days of '61, for at that time the volunteer system alone determined the service. The American Army in France is ourselves in khaki. All classes are represented. It is entirely democratic in its personnel and in its spirit. It is an army to be proud of and to be cared for. It is far from home and it will not be strange if many of the boys become homesick-especially if the winter campaign settles down to a dreary siege in the trenches...
...help him in his hours of recreation is almost as essential as to see that he is properly cared for in the field. We have the right to make his burden as light as we can and he has the right to receive whatsoever we can do in this spirit. Our men cannot all come back to us, but my wish is that those who do may be greatly ennobled by their battles as we should greatly gain by the sacrifices which we are willing to make for them. -HAMLIN GARLAND...
...envied "H" will now be eliminated. Only those who enter these sports for the enjoyment or the benefit derived from them will be attracted. It is now up to the student body to prove that it is filled with just such men; that there are enough of such spirit to compose baseball nines, track squads and crew eights. If this becomes a proved fact, the return to intercollegiate games will be vindicated. Otherwise intercollegiate as well as informal schedules had better be relegated to the ash-heap...