Word: walls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...attitude. But we are inclined to believe that the fault does not rest entirely with the undergraduate. Of course, it is inevitable that some men will take a more active interest in scholarship than others; the point is to increase the average interest, and to break down the wall which now exists between the lecture room and life...
...same, and, despite his huge lesson and the agonizing cry of the world, say "I am not of you"? The present hurrah for some of the old fleshpots points to weak assent, but there are, on the other hand, some indications that men are beginning to look over their wall. One of these is the Harvard Magazine, the second number of which has just appeared. At last, praise be, a single publication has ventured to invite to its columns the whole university, instructors as well as students, Radcliffe as well as Harvard, and to discuss other than purely academic interests...
...Both towns were very heavily bombarded, both by the Germans, the French, and Americans--whole blocks, of houses are laid flat, with no stone on top of another--unless perchance the under stone may sometimes be above. And in those towns, in shells of houses, windows and often whole walls missing, roofs gone or rent and torn, the civilians were coming back. I saw stores being reopened, houses being set up, debris cleared away. I saw a meat market starting again, the people passing in and out through a hole in the wall, the whole corner of the building having...
...matter of fact, I believe sincerely we all shall not see again a retreat coming our way. This morning, too, comes a continuingly excellent French communique. In the little villages having Major du cantonnement (and that means any village where troops are quartered), there is usually a wall, or house-side, whereon are posted the telephoned reports, two, three or more times a day. There is a bit of coping above to save, the paper from rain and before it gather the motley crew of Poilus. Nowadays with grin and jest--as if the war had just begun and were...
...soldiers. Be that as it may, troops who have been battling offensively for four years cannot fight with the same spirit and the same courage when they know that victory has become impossible and that they must remain to the end of the conflict with their backs to the wall...