Word: standing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have deeper ways of binding friendships now than with drink. We have surer tests of manhood than a Freshman's ability to stand up after eight highballs. We have more important things to do than get drunk once a week, once a month, or once...
...they may stand beside your bravest in a few months time, at the Marne or the Somme, or pushing past the Rhine and the Elbe into the heart of Germany...
...those who stand face to face with the fact of war see with a clearer vision, and know that the fore boding of those who have declared war is so ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly become magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...
...tediously emphasized the need for preparation, but we cannot do it too often. For the examinations which start this morning are doubly important. In the first place, they have all the value and seriousness of finals in ordinary times. In the second, they are the last obstacles which stand in the way of a lieutenant's commission. Thus they are a test of academic as well as military fitness, for the past as well as for the future...
...settings surpassed anything recently seen at the Castle Square, except for the last act, and the second was a vision of beauty and atmosphere. The production was well above the average, and with the play's fineness added, this year's Prize Play Performance should stand high in the annals of Harvard and the drama