Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Burnham '19, who substituted for Thacher, showed up well as a defensive back, tackling hard and following the ball well. He made sure of every second team back who got past the University line and is likely to give Thacher a hard fight for his regular position...
...proverbial half-truth. If by militarism he means an adequate state of national preparation against the calamity of war, then he is right. But pro-Ally sentiment is in no manner of means associated with the Hughes cause in Harvard. They may overlap; they are not co-terminous; they surely have no relation. That is a fact so patent that it scarcely needs statement, and I am sure that a much less acute observer than Mr. Lazarus believes himself to be would see that. The statement that Hughes draws his support throughout the country from the Anglophobes is plainly taken...
...above all, I am concerned about the station of my country among nations and that station, I hold, will be irretrievably impaired if Woodrow Wilson retains his seat in Washington. His foreign policy has been puerile, spasmodic and spineless. Hughes can do no worse. I am sure he will do far better, his whole past record has been one of steadfast and manly adherence to principle...
...perhaps obvious, to the critic, but certainly not to the "tired College student" and the "tired business man." Mr. Mardigan's letter on military science is forceful and true; it should be read by every man who intends to condemn the Regiment. "The Regiment is gone; unmourned, to be sure, but not unappreciated...
...eliminate this sort of mistakes that the advisory system was evolved. Provided the new men will meet them half way, the advisor can generally be trusted to do his part, and if both men really make an effort to come closer together the benefit is sure to be mutual...