Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...blundered. There will be a lot of mistakes made; we expect them; they are bound to happen. But when the game begins, do your command as it is given. Back your officer, back your country, back your Government. There must be team play, regardless of whether or not we think the command is the right...
...difference is too obvious to need further explanation, but if it should be urged that although the form of government is different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with all the troubles and vicissitudes which it entails to the shelter and comfort of the walls of Sing Sing. And to the Sanchos who would ridicule my typical...
...always a refreshing thing to hear a young critic express his criticism in a positive manner. There is entirely too much of the half-hearted, uncertain sort of judgment that says: "It seems to me," "I think," et cetera. Better far to show your colors and come boldly out with "It is," because everyone understands criticism as an expression of little more than personal opinion. The authority of it and the respect we give to it rests on the individual. Mr. Wright, then, who indeed does not hesitate to state his views with perfect assurance in his criticism of "Major...
...been hidden beneath the smartness of olive-drab. The traditional undergraduate slouch is ironed straight in the square-shouldered cut of the military blouse. Clothing which is made to be worn well makes a man stand well. And when a man stands well, he is apt to to think well of himself, and of that service which he represents...
...think the work of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in the American universities, and especially at Harvard, is excellent and on the right lines. I agree thoroughly with General Wood on the subject of intensive training for the R. O. T. C., and believe that the development of officers in the American universities is of vital importance to the country. They cannot do better than to carry out the Plattsburg idea of military training. I am immensely impressed with the situation in the colleges of the United States today, and the work of their members is being watched with interest...