Word: heroical
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Very fitting in this hour when the name of Norman Prince and the thought of his heroic death are alive in the minds of Americans, especially of Harvard men, the suggestion has come from a member of the Class of 1893 that a memorial be erected in his honor. It will also be remembered, however, that his service and his sacrifice have been part of a valor shared by other sons of Harvard. Doubtless to Norman Prince himself it was cause for satisfaction and a source of inspiration that many others from his own University stood with him, shoulder...
...could have the option of cultivating the ground and finding his market in Combes, or of staking out a battlefield and doing business with tourists when peace returns. What an opportunity for a man with the historic instinct! But will France permit showmen to desecrate the soil where her heroic sons have given up their lives for human liberty? The great battlefields of the war from the Somme to Verdun should be set apart and dedicated to educational and patriotic uses for all time. --New York...
Merrill Gaunt was a man of unusual and heroic character, and had given himself to the highest calling in life. He was 24 years old, and although born in Rhode Island, had spent the greater part of his life in Methuen. He prepared for college at Worcester Academy, took his degree at Amherst, and continued his studies in the Andover Theological Seminary and the Divinity School...
...elemental human terms, always terrible, sometimes humorous, not always heroic, is seen in this story of adventure in the war zone." Such is the manner in which "Roadside Glimpses of the Great War," a new book by Arthur Sweetser '11, is characterized on the cover...
...scene is laid at the court of King Henry VIII of England at the time when that jovial monarch is enjoying the company of his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. At the court is Godred, a Celtic knight, detained in the palace as a prisoner of war. Godred is a heroic figure; a typical "man who knows no fear...