Word: undoing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation is endeavoring by the current method, which is all that it may use, to wipe out eternally the anarchy of national war. And here, when all our strength is needed for our purpose, a group of egoists strives to undo our endeavor, and to substitute individual anarchy, to reduce us to the law of barbarians...
...with the greatest care a progressive course of training, comprising ample instruction for the average man to pass these final tests creditably. A few men, too selfish to sacrifice a part of their leisure time for the good of the majority, can spoil the appearance of the Regiment, and undo the efforts of their comrades in ranks. A little sacrifice of pleasure now may mean the future, as well as the immediate, success of the Harvard Regiment...
...going to get some money if I can and then I will be a naturalist. If I succeed, I can then get my own papers and drawings printed and help my father at the Museum.' The story of his struggle to make the mines a paying investment, to undo the false steps that had been taken, and of the marvelous success that ultimately attended it reads like a romance...