Word: welling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...energy and sacrifice going for a cause which is itself only a means, and such a foolish, illogical means, than which, no one, as yet, sees a better--to an end which is vague and so far away that most hereabouts lose sight of it. Perhaps it is as well. For I don't believe the Poilu could think and go on as bravely and smilingly as he does...
...seen Boche--wounded as well as whole prisoners, just as they are brought up from the trenches. One I can't forget was a fragile kid, clammy white, and with eyes gaping in terror. He was so young, so frightened, and so hungrily sick--looking. How could one transfigure him into the ferocious Teuton of most accounts...
...mere accident that has made all the pro-German organs in the press clamor against the men who dare point out our shortcomings, the speaker proceeded to assert, for the pro-Germans know well that our country's ruthless enemies, whom they serve as far as they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed...
...increasing value of a practical education has changed the scope of foreign colleges as well as American. Cambridge University intends to make its instruction more accessible by eliminating the knowledge of Greek as a prerequisite to admission. Some modern tongue will doubtless be substituted for the ancient. By revising its standards for entrance, this English institution sacrifices a precedent which has marked a long existence. For several centuries both Greek and Latin have been the very basis of a higher education, but now, because of changing conditions, either one is sufficient. Men who made England the power...
...only score of the game was made in the first period by E. Cabot '20, at right centre, on a pass from W. W. Rice '18, who carried the puck the whole length of the rink. On the offensive, Bright and Rice played well, and on the defensive the stars were J. Stubbs '20 and W. J. Louderback '20, who made several difficult stops...