Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...they will not tolerate the lack of vision with which so many of our colleges endeavor to crowd all their students into one little field for their recreation. They will still want intercollegiate competition, but they will also demand that the student spectators shall likewise be athletes. I think that some of the changes they will demand may be included in the following...
...with such emotions that I go to the front. Think of me as having believed something passionately enough not to have accepted rejections, as having found a place for myself when it was refused me time and again, as going into the fire with head up and laughing lips because I am an officer of France and an American. And if I am killed don't call me "poor fellow." I shall deserve better than that...
...education that will be established after the war, care must be taken to give instruction in facts and allow individual opinion to follow its natural bent. To attempt a whole sale direction of the thoughts and reasoning power of the young is to create a nation of Germans, who think in platoons and whose highest ideal in personal conduct does not rise above blind obedience to their superior officers...
...sights which one must witness over here, I think to see the poor, bent, old civilians coming back to their reconquered homes, coming back to pick about among the ruins, gathering up the remnants of their possessions and trying to bring some sort of order out of great chaos, to make some sort of a home out of great devastation, to find, some kind of living in a land destroyed,--working bravely, looking cheerfully at a scene which would cause the stoutest to falter, and then pitching in--that I think is one of the saddest sights...
Well, enough for now--lest I weary you too much. I think we're going to get a rest for a spell now--after 2 1-2 months of constant jumping. Certainly we need it, as well as the chance to drill our replacements which a trip to rest billets would give, for we've quite a good many new men now--filling the gaps left in our ranks; for since June 1st this regiment has suffered some pretty severe losses--and I believe they're the smallest of any regiment in the division. Yet, as a regiment...