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...major points out that in the origin of the salute there was no hint of the servility which some raw recruits have foolishly read into this important feature of military etiquette...
...settling of the problem of the ages can't be done in the twinkling of an eye--not even the legal eye. I, for one, have no such ambitions, even if I were to live and try for 'a thousand years. But though the aim be only to hint at a useful tendency--that, too, takes a certain amount of effort and patience. That is why I feel the need of coming back to the attack, on that little matter of the aims of education...
Things do look bad, but a little privation only reminds us that we are at war,--a fact we are often wont to forget. Moreover, the mid-years are coming nearer and nearer, and the new law gives us a gentle hint to do a little work; Mr. Storrow's restriction may even save us from the annual post-examination call on Mr. Cram. To make Boston deader than it is seems an unnecessary blow, especially with New York revelling practically as of yore. Still, coal must be saved and until warm weather comes our motto must be: Off with...
...pass in review with the evenest ranks may bear little relation to fighting in France, but it does give a good hint as to the general effectiveness of a regiment. The best way to convince the University committee that this Corps is actually more than a mob of enthusiastic boys is to make that review one worthy of praise. It so happens that the members of the committee cannot be present in Cambridge to watch the daily progress of the regiment, and they will naturally judge much from what they see today. Make their impression one which will make them...
...that it should be retrieved by yet harder fighting, no longer seems to be a safe policy. It is the necessity of making the German public fancy that their army had avoided a trap and thus won a negative success which is the true significance of this attitude. No hint of a failure is admitted to the people even in the midst of a series of unqualified successes...