Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whether the late war is really to be the last, as many of us hope, or whether there are certain inevitable causes of war existing in human society and inseparable from it, we do not know. What we, as college men, should give most concern to is, that war is a most irrational and barbarous method of settling disputes between states, and that we, as citizens in embryo of the greatest democracy of the world, should by striving for better government and better men to run that government, make possible the realization of the ultimate purpose for which this league...
...summer camp are not to be announced until later, these appointments will take care of the problems of immediate interest. From the point of view of the undergraduate who is training here it will be reassuring to know that his instruction and the enforcement of the regulations that concern him are not to be in the hands of a group of men, many of whom may have had less military experience than he himself, but rather of those who have directed the work of the Corps on Soldiers Field, in barracks and at Barre. In any military body strong centralized...
...thesis in the last half-hour of the allotted time; according to the recent order of Major Flynn such men, if they wait after next Friday, will merely find themselves debarred from positions as officers or non-coms, when the new companies are organized. Their cases merit no concern...
...months the men have heard talk of housing and, in not a few cases, it is a local real-estate boom, or builders with something to sell, or some interested concern that is talking loudest, and they feel, not unnaturally, discouraged after these landlord experiences. And all this time nothing is really done. The men endure, the work goes on, but it drags and every day the call from the other side is more insistent. This is something that no Y. M. C. A., no Knights of Columbus, can handle: neither State nor City can do it, only the Government...
...hoping for it, and I know only too well that perhaps I am not worthy of it anyway. My chief concern now is to get abroad, and when I get there to do my damnedest to avenge my brother's death. I won't stand for anything less than the complete conquering of the devils who let this hell on earth loose. Whatever my part is to be I intend that it shall at least be one that is felt by some German or Germans, and I have gritted my teeth to see this thing through and hang on like...