Word: seeking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...eligible for commissions or for the draft feel nevertheless that they must find some service which will be worthy of their desire to serve. That impulse, to be frank, affects boys from the age of fourteen on. The old order has changed, and they seek the adventure of life in the new. As result there are many boys of seventeen who are attempting to enter the Navy, and others who are seeking in what way they may help their country, provided it be a way of excitement and romance...
...well enough to talk about the sanctity of the Sabbath. But youth will be served. And men who may not find recreation around Cambridge will seek it outside, at the beaches and amusement parks, where religion is not especially fostered. It is not a question of observing the Sabbath according to the strict letter, or of neglecting it in tennis and rowing. It is a question of neglecting it in tennis and rowing, or of contemning it in less natural amusements...
...gladly of that which they might have done, and left undone? Will they find the life they have lived so all surpassing lovely? And they, the very cowardly, will they go to meet death with more bravery or less, when the inevasible end shall come, because they failed to seek death out where brave men fall within the fight...
...After the lapse of two months, although not much has been begun, and nothing ended in a martial way, we are reverting somewhat to our former manners. It is evident that such a grand thing even as war may not exclude everything from our lives. We must seek the ordinary distractions from the business in hand, in order that we may resume the business in hand with increased effort. No vast military good is accomplished by refusing to dance, to heal music and see plays, or to keep up our friendships. In a time of increased effort, indeed, a more...
...than is essential to our country's safety. The normal course of events demands that we remain here until June. There is no national benefit to be derived from a self imposed vacation coming at this time. The Administrative Board wisely and generously allowed the regular spring vacation. To seek more is to be unappreciative...