Word: well
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the exemption which will be made to the draft bill, members of those religious sects which forbid participation in war, as well as clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which...
...Cornell, as well as at many other colleges and universities throughout the country, the program for commencement has been greatly curtailed due to conditions brought about by the war. A large number of the functions ordinarily included in the program, because of the abandonment of senior week and its attendant events, have been omitted entirely. The result is a commencement in which the usual social activities have been practically eliminated in favor of the simpler formal exercises which are now planned...
...various home guards being established through the country by locally patriotic citizens who still cherish the traditions of the Revolution, are admirable. These men remember the time, well sung by poets, when a man's house was his castle, a flintlock over the mantelpiece his artillery, and his neighbors and himself the defending army. At the call of the tocsin from every home would emerge the embattled citizens, and foreign soldiers would melt before their aroused wrath like the milky way before the sun. For the sake of truth, which is always a prosaic busybody, we must admit that occasionally...
...trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality of oil, and turn their energies to planting potatoes...
...nations as such are fond of dilating on their past, that from contemplation of the greatness which has been theirs, they may summon up greater boldness for the present. That serves well our rhetoricians and 4th of July orators. But it has small value save as a pastime for the historically well grounded...