Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much was heard about the failure of American college because of turning out men who would be of little avail in such a struggle. The continuance of the war would only prove how useless colleges were as institutions in time of national peril. It is all very well for us to loll around reading our classics or admiring our art, but when men are out killing one another that institution which is the upholder of the Sabine Farm and its accoutrements is decidedly a back number...
...us be sensible about the thing. The work lies at each man's hand to be done; the one for the rifle, the other for the book. It should be done as allotted...
...graduates are always welcomed, for they see in us a memory, however slight of that which they once were. Although they are sure that in the golden mirage of their youth they were never so callous, nor so ignorant, nor so self-satisfied. And so, in mutual reflection and compassion we shall meet each other...
...gather for a class reunion. The class is indebted to a committee of classmates in New York City, who had largely completed plans for a celebration this spring when the existing state of war became officially recognized by our National Government. Their entire concurrence with our views has reasasured us in the position which we have, taken...
...this war is not the end of the world, which has seen many dark tumults unshaken, and passed through the rise and death of principalities and empires. Nor is it the end and consummation of individual lives. It is a sad necessity which has come on us to be fulfilled; but it can never be the goal of our ambitions, nor can we narrow our vision by refusing to look beyond...