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Aside from the motto, the cover is attractive; the decorative design is simple and dignified, and the color scheme harmonious. Amid bursting shrapnel stands the Red Cross, partially hidden by branches of laurel and by a gleaming sword. The motto alone is weak. It is hard to see how one could have made a poorer choice than the singsong couplet...
...Douglas Haig may discard his shoulder straps and his ivory-hilted sword, because he has proved his rank and worth and needs no adventitious aid. Arrived great men in all societies are usually simple in their tastes. But novices in the profession of arms are keyed to higher striving by symbols of office. Be tolerant, therefore, and philosophical in the midst of uniforms. --Boston Advertiser...
...will be crying for men with professional training. On this account, it is for the Senior of 1918 to consider his duty most carefully. He must bear in mind the chances of service, and it is most sincerely to be hoped that he will not impatiently reach for the sword but consider carefully the fields of commerce, law, and medicine...
...gibber in the American streets and eke sometimes from American platforms. These are the shadow Huns, the forerunners of a solid flesh and blood reality--or blood and iron, as it prefers to describe itself. All flesh is as grass, and grass is a thing for which the German sword has no use, except it snatch at a few wisps to wipe its blade...
...highest type of warrior is not the highest type of man. In taking up the sword for a just cause no man who is true to his education is taking it up joyously or with love of the work he has to do. He is undertaking a work which must be finished, which must be quickly and well finished that it be forever finished. In so doing he will fight all the more bravely and wisely...