Word: winning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...certain Boston paper reaches the height of tactlessness, to use a considerate word, in publishing large headlines to the effect that a member of the Reichstag has declared Germany cannot win against the United States. To print this so prominently amounts to saying, "Stay at home, boys; keep your money in your pockets. The Kaiser is afraid of us and wants to quit." Privileges of the press may permit this, but a reasonable sense of patriotism does not. Such a sacrifice of common sense for sensationalism, by creating an unfounded feeling of security and contempt, endangers loan campaigns, recruiting agencies...
...backs and ends. If we make good we win glory and distinction. The men whose duty it is to remain behind in college and in civil occupation of other kinds are the centre of the line. Theirs is the hard job. They plug along at dull work and if they make good, they receive no glory. But they receive what is infinitely more worthwhile, namely the inward satisfaction of having done the harder job; of having done it well without the inspiration or rewards...
...battle is to be fought, not by artillery and soldiers at the front, but by the civilian population at home. It is a direct effort by the rank and file of the people to help win the war. Its success depends on cooperation. All the organization developed by the first Liberty Loan will be brought into play again, as artillery to blast the way. Every hamlet and town in this country must be reached before the artillery preparation is complete. Hard behind it, marching in the barrage of shells, will come the civilian infantry, consisting of every income-earning citizen...
...present time it is planned to have the regular University crew next spring in case the war should be over by that time. Therefore the Upper classmen who report for fall rowing will be in a far better position to win positions on the University than those who fail to avail themselves of this opportunity. No "H" men will be back. If a University crew is formed next spring, it will be built around a nucleus formed by the few men who will return and who held positions last year on the second and third crews. This leaves several vacancies...
...take this as an augury of future, more martial successes. At first when we had entered the war we talked very bravely. Then we got quite frightened and talked very excitedly. Now we have battles to win, and it is to be presumed they will be well...