Word: heroisms
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...spite of her age and a severe physical disability, is still the Divine Sarah of half a century past. She is acting in America to help the country she loves. Captain Koenig has risked his life for his Fatherland. The nations they represent are fighting to the death, but heroism is international, and we who are neutral can honor them both...
...from the field are more simply written. They tell of incidents that impressed the writers, they do not often theorize and when they do, they have enthusiasm. Speaking of men and things seen on the trips, they are letters home from a strange land of moral grandeur and unceasing heroism...
...most of the opportunities offered in college. Dr. Fitch said, "You represent the parents who have toiled that you may be here; the men and boys who, unable to come to the college, are working now; and you represent those boys who have laid down their lives in heroism on the other hemisphere...
...sort; it is "scientific loafing." It comes in intervals of recuperation and inspiration between hours of concentrated effort. This makes for efficiency; it makes play more enjoyable because earned; and it brings the maximum of happiness: Scientific loafing means also scientific working. And work is not a matter of heroism and of repulsive "grinding." It is a matter of habit,--and of habit not impossible to acquire in these three weeks preceding the midyear examinations...
...intellectual, administrative and physical, have been offered freely and without complaint upon the altar of our country. The list of those who have won distinction is enough to fill our hearts with thankfulness that Cambridge has produced such sons, and nearly every one of us have friends whose unrecorded heroism would swell the list, were it possible that all could be recognized and their deeds be made known...