Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...efforts to the new era. Unless we all do this there will be no new era. The new democracy should be an individualistic democracy. Individuals must therefore develop themselves. Supervised study does not produce students and to much government does not produce free citizens. Those who look back with regret that they were not permitted to take an active part in the great war, should not forget a lesson which this war has taught,--that it was the men who had best prepared themselves for service in times of peace who were found to be the most useful to their...
Before this reaches you I shall be at the front. I regret that it will not be with my own. They are wonderful, and Europe is breathing a new air because of them. They have the vision--and the dreams of old men are coming true. I wish I could tell you the great pride and faith and elation the recognition of their spirit gives us. To be an American is today the proudest thing in the world. But even when one is not fighting as one of them--even though he wears another color, he is fighting with...
...final adjournment of University football until after a touchdown has been scored across the Hun goal line has come to pass, but not without bringing pangs of regret to the hearts of its numberless adherents. The effort to keep the game alive during the war was manifest last season by the trial of the "informal system." Again this year an endeavor has been made to arrange games between representative teams of the large colleges...
...course prescribed for R. O. T. C. units in General Order 49, 1916, it is now apparent that this was not their intention. We can not criticize the War Department for their action, for the necessity of maintaining a single standard for all colleges is obvious; we can only regret that men who have had the benefits of training more extensive than the Government four-year course requires should be deprived of the advantages of the advanced class...
...theory carries out. The men or women with a few dollars in Liberty Bonds or Thrift Stamps will add to those dollars. They will regret when an unnecessary dollar must be drawn from their incomes or their bank deposits. With thousands the thrift instinct has been aroused for the first time: More years of war or sudden peace will not affect the personal equation in the preachment of frugality. At first it will be only gradually realized, the evolution of type being brought about, but nevertheless surely the foundation has been laid for a greater and saner, a better...