Word: succor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cross. Not that our men in arms do not represent our character, for they do, and it is a character which those who see and realize appreciate and admire; but their duty is the duty of force. The duty of the Red Cross is the duty of mercy and succor and friendship...
Governor McCall has done well to communicate to the authorities at Halifax the expression of his keenest sympathy, with the assurance that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will go to the limit in extending to the stricken people every sort of succor or assistance that is open to us. The ties between Nova Scotia and its capital and our State and city are close and warm. The consequences of the disaster, in physical suffering and very likely in hunger, must be instant and terrible. Let us start our help at once. The railway and the sea should bear it even before...
...medical staff needs brave men. Where the foremost men in the charge go, there the doctor follows, bringing what succor he may to the wounded. In the trenches, out in the wastes of No Man's Land, on ships of the line, on hospital boats, the doctors of all nations are present with the bearers of arms, meeting, if need be, death with equal fortitude. The mortality among those who do not strive to inflict wounds, but to heal them, has been notably great. There is chance here for our young men of spirit to accomplish at once a brave...
...bring to your succor the sword and the lance...
...verse certainly shows variety enough. "Once in Illusion?" by H. Henderson '17, it attains poetic feeling and divination of the Wordsworthian school with a tinge of Platonism. If poetry nowadays were only compatible with clearness! The verse libre of A. Kline Sp might have changed forms with "Succor," since "Sunday Chapel" is no less prosaic than Harding Scholle '17's less self-conscious effort toward oddity in form. With more earnest expression of sincere feeling this must even be a vain plea addressed to writers who nervously fret to be "different"--in vain, as long as Pegasus, instead of trying...