Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...various demands made upon us by the national government have been met with a promptness of spirit which has been according to the best traditions of Massachusetts. Your University has contributed very largely of its resources in helping the country to win the war. Some of her most valiant sons have given their lives for our country. To a history already full of glorious deeds, Harvard has added new glory to its record. Harvard University has always stood for the defense of American can institutions, and is now continuing to maintain the standard set so many years...
...valiant little Army in Northern Russia has been defeated again by the reorganized forces of the Reds. We can picture the feelings of the Allied officers and men placed up there in the Russian winter, not to win a victory and crush the forces of the Bolsheviki--the Army is obviously too small for that--but to keep fighting somehow against perilous odds that the Allies might not be accused of passively accepting anarchy...
...Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". Great is our pity for the poor Tiger who has to face the claws of the female of the species thoroughly aroused. For wonder of wonders, Princeton, our valiant rival is going to be locked in struggle with Vassar--in a debate...
Heroes have been honored in many ways and on many occasions ever since wars first began. He whose death was valiant even more than he whose life was marked by bold deeds has furnished inspiration for future generations. Some are remembered through memorials of marble, other thought the literature of fellow-men. In every instance, however, the world tries to honor in the most imperishable form it can devise, those qualities of manhood which outlast any memorial. Never can we perpetuate in a truly permanent and fitting way the valor of courageous self-sacrifice, but we aim forever to make...
Until we looked across the valiant line...