Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor G. Lowes Dickinson, of Oxford University, would heartily agree. He finds that there are hardly more than two British papers which dare defend the conscientious objectors to military service or to propose peace. Meetings for discussion of peace are broken up by rowdies. The Defence-of-the-Realm. Act has been twisted from its purpose of preventing information from reaching the enemy into a gag-law to prevent intelligent criticism of public interests...
...University won the toss and elected to defend the south goal. Mueller kicked off for Cornell and T. C. Thach Jr., '18 ran the ball back to the 35-yard line. Horween punted, after Cornell was off-side and R. Harte '17 tackled Shiverick, who had recovered the punt on the two-yard line. An exchange of punts kept the ball in the Ithacans' territory, and the University started a rush down the field. Horween and E. L. Casey '19 alternated in carrying the ball to within the ten-yard line, from which point an unsuccessful forward pass went over...
...armies all spent a number of years at Harvard. They gained some intellectual training, perhaps, but more than that, they acquired ideals of service and traditions of bravery which peculiarly belong to Harvard. It was this early influence in part that sent them into the face of danger to defend what they personally considered a worthy and a righteous cause. It is not because these brave men made their sacrifices for either France or England that they should receive the respect of their alma mater, but because they showed the traditional bravery of Harvard men, by giving their very lives...
...advantages of the course," he said, "are obvious. In the first place, by taking it, a man is performing a patriotic duty, for the day may come, as we hope it shall not, when we are called on to defend our country. It is of the utmost importance that there be at least 50,000 trained officers in the country ready to lead their countrymen in time...
...most important, in the formative period of life, to acquire the habit of defence of one's country. By accepting the privileges of American citizenship you accept also the responsibility of protecting your country. The time is bound to come when the United States must be ready to defend itself, and you are given the opportunity now to accomplish something concrete. You may not become an admiral, but one man who joins the naval cruise is worth to the Navy a hundred who have not been on board ship...