Word: frontierisms
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...troops and ourselves move down to the plains (Gharial has ten feet of snow quite frequently and no one stays here but the nomad tribesmen). But for the present the two of us are in joint command of the first army Y. M. C. A. on the frontier...
Professor W. E. Hocking '01 gave three reasons why the preparedness movement is not temporary: our personal and national interests have spread to all parts of the world and preparedness is necessary for their security; the soldier is always at the frontier where civilization is being built up; and military training affords the opportunity for the exercise of will which is lacking in our educational system. Military training can do for men by the thousands what athletic training can do for them by the dozens...
...have a solution worthy of the noble ideals that sustained Germany's upward flight. Let us hope that it will lead to the purging, purifying, and strengthening of German greatness through this fearful trial. A letter received recently from a German judge, now fighting as lieutenant on the Russian frontier, points to such a hope. He writes: 'The conduct of our men in this war is beyond all praise. Whatever may be the outcome of the war, the German people is bound to gain by it in inner strength. All classes have come to know what they are to each...
...United States to reach its enemy? Certainly we have as little reason to fear the designs of any of our neighbors as they ours. If it is Canada that menaces us, let us at once abrogate the agreement of one hundred years' standing in accordance with which our northern frontier is entirely unfortified...
Reed says the system used by the Germans is wonderful. On one occasion he went around for three weeks without showing his papers and one officer upon seeing his name, told from memory the time at which he had crossed the frontier and all the places he had visited since that time. Reed says that the Germans have no pass-word. A German officer whom he asked in regard to this said "Oh we have no pass-word. There are no spies in Germany...