Word: manhood
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...They make their way from the East, where I have grown from small beginnings nearly three centuries ago, side by side with the growth of a great nation and as an integral part of its faith and striving. They make their way from the West, where vigorous American manhood, with its face to the setting sun, hewed out an empire and established the fighting spirit of truth throughout a great land. They come to me from the South and the North, from every farm and village and city, where clean hearted, clear eyed boys have turned toward...
They have laid my foundations on faith, on eternal visions of fair dealing, and fashioned my greatness with red blooded manhood and shoulder to shoulder contact with their fellow...
...wrong and has no defense. Temperance is self-imposed and self-enforced; Prohibition is imposed by others against your will, and enforced with a policeman's club. You can no more promote pure temperance by force than you can make love with a brickbat. Prohibition is insulting to your manhood, because it denies to you the right of self-determination...
...wish of Mr. Rhodes, the Trustees desire that "in the election of a student to a scholarship, regard shall be had to (1) his literary and scholastic attainments, (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports, such as cricket, football, and the like, (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition during the schooldays of moral force of character, and of instincts to lead and take an interest in his schoolmates." Mr. Rhodes suggests that (2) and (3) should be decided...
...reasonable for them to dishonor the nation by deserting the flag as for the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them. Is it a large thing that we are now asked to lend our money to pay the cost of victory? Is American money less willing than American manhood...