Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...take it for granted that you know I'm at last in the service, here at the ground school, for which I am thankful...
...football team there last fall if he had stayed in college, and he was president of Scroll and Keys when he left for France. That is not an infallible proof that he was all right, but it shows what his own class thought of him, and you can take my word for it anyway, that you don't meet a man of his ability and kindness in every day's journey you make. He once fell off a cliff,--perhaps I told you about it, and was very badly hurt,--and had to stay out of school for a year...
...really seems impossible that a boy who had as much promise as he had should be killed that way. I have always felt that if there was a God he would take care of men who always tried to do right, as they saw the right, and for a day or two I was sick and discouraged and felt that even God had gone back on me. But I can see now that perhaps after all it was a very wonderful privilege for him to die in that way,--in defence of his country and doing his best to uphold...
...against the wickedest and most powerful force of evil that the world has ever seen, and that it is going to be a gruelling conflict that will test our country right up to the breaking point,--a finish fight, with no holds or blows barred, that will take every grain of sand we have, and every ounce of fighting strength to win. And so I'm in it on that basis, and if it is possible for one atom in the mass to influence the result I am either going to influence it or be killed trying...
This morning the work of dismantling Dane Hall will be begun when the American Building Wrecking Company will take charge of the ruins from the fire of February 3. It is necessary that the building be completely torn down before May 20 in order to get the ground in condition before Commencement exercises begin in June...