Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...words came as a shock to us; we have been fed up with so many compliments on the excellence of every maneuver we execute that we did not know what to make of this man who openly told us we were distinctly bad. Not that the University minds being told that it has faults; it does not. But what aroused us was the fact that each and every member of the R. O. T. C. has known right along that things were in a bad way. We have known it, we have discussed it, and then we have blundered along...
...have learned our lesson and it is bound to be with us forever: the day of indifference is over, at least as far as drill is concerned. Colonel Applin has done more for the R. O. T. C. than any other lecturer we can remember hearing; in return we hope that in a week or so he will honor us with another inspection to see a real, live Regiment showing the effects of his words...
...credit system. So has life. If we stopped to verify the word of every one with whom we were obliged to deal in the course of the day, human affairs would be paralyzed. The only way the world can go on is on the assumption that people around us are telling the truth. And it is because of the hideous inconvenience and uncertainty he occasions that the whole world detests a liar...
...comparative indifference, prepared for the ordinary "local engagements" and "improvements of positions," where a week ago we snatched at the morning paper prepared for the worst. In this country, we have undoubtedly slipped into this tranquil stage behind the heavy barrage of the Loan campaign, which has given us little time for other things. Is the present state of mind one of unjustified confidence? By no means, Hard tests still confront the Allied armies; but the fact that refuses to be explained away is that in the seventh week of Germany's supreme effort the German army stands still...
...because they have worked conscientiously and because the Tactical Staff believe them to be worthy of the great trials which are to come. They may go "over" as privates, they may be given commissions very soon, but whatever happens to them they are objects of envy to those of us who are doomed to wait until we too become of age. They are departing on the "Great Adventure"; we are still training for that opportunity...