Word: surely
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seems sure that the Association will pass these resolutions. We can only congratulate the fathers of the plans on their timely sagacity. National crises can work wonders in most things. The present war seems about to effect a marvellous change in collegiate athletics...
...sure that Sherman's definition of war was made in winter time. Then we have all terrors and hardships without pleasures; we freeze as though we were in Russia, yet we have no Germans to kill and thus get warm, nor will any one come along and put us out of our miseries. So we suffer. The one solace is to watch the band. That marvelous sound-producing organization is even more handicapped by cold than we. The instruments of brass are helpless in the breeze, the drums alone are audible above a sea of discord. The agony...
Every American shrinks from the thought of being linked politically with Europe. He feels the selfishness and the pride of nationality which are his rightful heritage. He will squirm at the many dissertations sure to come on the subject of European and American political union. --New York...
...reviewed by the University Military Committee, after a period of training less than two months. On this committee are some of the country's keenelt military critics, men who will be the first to pick flaws in such a body as the R. O. T. C. We feel sure that they will realize the newness of the Corps, but on the other hand we expect the members of the Corps to measure up to an exact standard in spite of their recent initiation into military life. And this because of the ordinary difficulty of impressing favorably such men as compose...
With the sudden initiation of the new system, a few men are sure to be sucked under. The University never learns the importance of a ruling until the effects can be studied on some unfortunate Exhibit A. Eventually, however, its strict enforcement by the heads of the Military Department--as distinguished from the Tactical Staff--should place the discipline of the Corps on the basis which Captain Shannon maintained at Barre...