Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aerial observer of an infantry contact machine, a duty that to me is as interesting as it is important in battle. Before I came over I had never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing, and informed in all things generally. Gas, with its terrifying results, trench mortars, automatic rifles, grenades, bayonets, wire entanglements, trenches, communication systems, aeroplanes...
Then comes "New Moon." We suggest to the editors of future anthologies that the title of this immortal lyric be altered to "Diana Hermaphrodite," that the sweet anonymous singer may receive his due reward for it--ing the moon in one stanza and her--ing the poor thing in the next...
...wooden crosses, and about the ambulance work that they have done; many men in English 5 and English 12 and English 31 and English 6 could give lessons to these editors; and there are letters from across. It is the duty of the Advocate to secure the kind of thing that college men like to read and can read. The editors might even go to some of the men outside their evidently narrow clique for help. It would be sad to see the Advocate go on sending good war-time paper to the basket encumbered with spineless imitations of what...
...their degrees when they volunteered for their country's service, Princeton very properly felt that she could afford, on condition of the completion of the intensive work they were required to do here in preparation for such service, to grant them their degrees. That, however, is quite a different thing from giving degrees ad libitum to all who go into the service. Princeton nevertheless recognizes that the students who respond to the call of their country at the sacrifice of their college course should receive some high official mark of distinction from their Alma Mater, and the University authorities have...
...purpose on the Western Hemisphere was looked upon as a distant dream. Such differences, however, melt away when a question of duty to do the right clearly presents itself. As a poet has said, border, breed or birth are small matters in such a contingency. It is a glorious thing to know that through the awful destruction and havoc which this war is effecting we are at least coming to know, to understand, and to appreciate our brothers of the South and that they are seeing us in another light than that of rank materialists. No shallow sentiment or diplomatic...