Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...excitement that necessarily attends the opening of a great University, men in every class and department may overlook the sphere into which the college man has been cast by the great war. Leaders in the nation's military and administrative work have urged that, wherever possible, the education of young men be completed before they are lost in the mold of a great military organization. But the very fact that the nation is willing to dispense with our services for a greater future benefit, places us under the obligation to assume at least a tone of our coming responsibilities...
...very hard for even the oldest head in these times of fierce commotion to settle down to the book and pen. The blood of youth is very hot, and when the bugle blows to war young men are stirred by the desire for great deeds. Not one year in the past half century have the history book and the poetry book and the philosophy book seemed more vain and idle...
Nations are being made and unmade. Young men are the inciters of revolution, and the stirrers-up of conflict. By them are the annals of war ennobled. It is in the very nature of human passions that the young men of the College should find nothing in life worth more than...
...Kreger '16 corroborated Coach Haines, adding that it was the duty of every young man to fit himself physically to stand the strain of a soldier's life. The Military Science courses this year offer less physical and more mental training. It is, therefore, a patriotic duty of the men in these military courses to take some outside from of physical training. As the rowing will be arranged to avoid all conflicts with the military work, there can be no excuse offered on that ground...
There is a gladiatorial splendor about football which makes an elemental and therefore all the more strong appeal to young men, who are usually quite elemental. We may hope that it is the representative national game. It surely represents a higher ideal than baseball, which is an elaborate nonsense. The bravest of the Spartans would have felt a not ignoble thrill, sitting in the top row under the collonades, when Mahan met LeGore. It is a Roman game; it is a brave game...