Word: strong
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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These officers, who have in six weeks of intimate work usurped high regard and cordial friendliness in the minds of their pupils, have likewise gained strong attachment for the University. Assigned by their Government to an unexpected post in this country, among a people whose language one or two of them did not even know, they undertook the training of the Corps with the greatest eagerness. We may hope that their endeavor has not been wholly, nor in the least part, in vain...
...resources of any kind to expend in a show of gallantry. Those boys, almost young men, who are not called on nor needed by our armies, will find the best way of helping their country in continuing the course of education they have begun, fitting themselves to be strong and honorable...
...need to call upon our boys nor our old men to defend the nation or to gain victory. The knowledge rests with us that should such bitter need arise, as we may trust it never will, they will come, not in the tumultuous desire for excitement, but in the strong desire for service, equally brave...
Only, to be frank, the suitability of elephant-gray to the purpose in hand might be questioned. Some men do bear strong similitude to an elephant weighing anchor when they essay a rush from skirmish line. Others advance more like the familiar kangaroo. Perhaps, all in all, rhinoceros-gray would suit best the complexion of a recruit...
...duty. But no prophecies that "the famine'll get you if you don't watch out" may be used to instil fortitude and determination into an intelligent nation. If we as a people need such methods of comprehending the necessary, then we have small reason to exist as a strong people, but rather as a pygmy-souled race of children. However, we need no such methods, as is quite obvious...