Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...soon as we left St. Nicholas evidences that we were in close proximity to the battle-line crowded in on us thick and fast. We passed several detachments of mud-stained infantry who bore unmistakable signs of having passed the previous night in the trenches. The fields on either side of the road were pitted with shell holes; many of the farmhouses were charred and roofless; and the plain wooden crosses which marked the graves of fallen heroes became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early...
...attention primarily on the means of securing the safety of our own land from injury by war. They realize that defencelessness is not the best protection from aggression. Knowing that we do not covet the possessions of others, they believe that foreign nations are less likely to quarrel with us if we are well able to defend ourselves. Few again, if any, of these men want to increase our military forces in order to go to war; and they are, no doubt, right that a reasonable state of preparation is far more likely to avert than to precipitate hostilities. There...
...observe, the members of the league do not bind themselves to accept the award, but only to present their case and hear the decision. Let us consider the probable effect in a concrete case. Take that of the controversy with England about Venezuela, and suppose, what did not happen, that feeling in the two countries had run dangerously high. If the league had consisted, besides these two nations, of France, Germany, Russia, and Japan, neither England nor the United States, however excited, would for a moment have thought of risking war with all the other powers. They would have done...
...us then be pardoned a little timely exultation in showing our appreciation of the efforts of the coaches and men who have brought about these results. College athletics are not the main tent; they are properly the side show of college life; but the side show is often very important, if only to set off and strengthen the main attractions. "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are," says the physician. Similarly one might say, "tell me how well you play at manly contests, and I will tell you how well you work intellectually...
...Civil War" was the subject of the oration of James Ford Rhodes at the literary exercises of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre yesterday morning. Mr. Rhodes prefaced his specific comments by saying that Lincoln was not as faultless as he seems to some of us, but that one need not hesitate to point out his short-comings, knowing that his virtues will swing the balance far in his favor...