Word: surely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they were a positive, visible proof to our British companions that America was in the war. Every member of our Unit has made lasting fiendships with the English. Many of us were detached to other hospitals which were understaffed when the big push was on, and so I am sure that by rubbing shoulders with the British officers and Tommies throughout all Northern France, by giving them our best efforts when they were down to iron rations last spring, the University's Unit accomplished untold good in furthering the spirit of co-operation between the two great English speaking peoples
Those who receive this degree will be fully aware of its peculiar significance and value. It means that the University has confidence enough in these young lions to grant them an honor which she is sure their own diligence would have won if the opportunity had been given. It means more. That degree has been won not alone by a man's own sacrifice, nor the sacrifice of our thousands of warriors. It has been bought with the blood of 278 of our own class-mates, and with the lives of that host of dead...
...plain that after the destruction and the distraction of war the old College is emerging--not settling back--to its own plane once more, and that what Stevenson has called "an unwavering creative purpose" is again asserting itself. Not that the strokes of the artist are always sure, or his lines and modelling free from false touches or even ugly angles. This is illustrated in the imagistic verses, of which there are two rather ambitious contributions, "The Beggar" and "Lights and Snows"; also in the stories "Yestdo" and "The Glory Look". Nevertheless the workmanship of all these is distinctly good...
...there is one field in which credit is due, namely, Military Science. If the Faculty were in this subject to give credit based upon the length of service of the man in question, we are sure that every undergraduate would be satisfied...
...should like to be sure that those who through your columns recently petitioned that "Military English" be not required in English A fully understand our programme. We are mindful of the fact that English A must confine itself to the needs of the majority; and we have not the time or the inclination, even if we have the necessary knowledge, to go into the details of military "paper work." All we propose is, for the next three weeks, to bring out, by practising a few of the simpler and more generally useful forms of military writing, and by reading certain...