Word: went
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Constant Cordier, U. S. A., has lately been commissioned a major and is working at the Army War College in Washington where he went at the end of last June...
Willaim Meeker died in France in that cause for which other fine lads have died. He went forth bravely, as he could not help but go. More than that a man may not do. The highest reverence goes to him who wins the proud right to die. But nothing may remake the broken years. The leadership, the inspiration, may not be gleaned from death...
...Seniors, to the last man, in ponderous exuberance at their celebration, have unwrapped their flannel trousers from the mothballs in which they have rested from the Freshman Jubilee in '14, and have practised the strange new dance steps which have come in since the polka and the two-step went out of fashion. They do not say much, but from veiled boasts it is to inferred that they expect to show these youngsters of '18 and '19 a thing or two about how to celebrate in real fashion. The senorial gown has been thrown aside, and these mages...
...committee could well have been pardoned had it made up only a mediocre book. Its duty to the class which entrusted it with the work of the Album would have been fulfilled with the issuing of a volume which contained the briefest chronicle of the class. Yet the Committee went beyond its simple duty, anl in spite of difficulties incomparably greater than those which have arisen in other years, has made the 1917 Album an improvement in practically every way over the preceding...
...recorded in the sacred annals of the Medes and Persians--so our friend the scholar in Semitic 12 informs us--that when Artaxerxes, king of all the world from the Euphrates to the Tigris, went to battle he armed the front line of his phalanges with a buffer of pugnacious elephants. On each elephant was a wild-eyed son of Japhet with a sharp goad and a rebel yell. The goad tickled the elephant's hide, the rebel yell tickled his musical sensibilities. He became imbued with the spirit of conquest and charged like a young Juggernaut or a Woolworth...