Word: visioning
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...consecrated cause of their native land, to feel that in training a group of unskilled young men here, however willing were those young men, and however great was the need of training, they had been relegated to the less exciting and less glorious post of war. Yet with large vision and broad sympathy they saw the needs and the possibilities of the lessons which they might teach, and have worked without rest in the teaching...
...agitation of the last months for that military preparedness which we so direly needed, the East, with lordly superiority, assumed to tell the West and the Middle West how much broader was its vision and how much deeper was its patriotism. Now that war editorials in the Eastern city papers have taken second place in the nation's war plans to the demand for men, and pretty words have lost, like the problematical salt, their savor, the West and the Middle West are citing their larger contributions in men to our fighting forces as proof of their true and actual...
...life seemed failing before that first terrible iron rush of the picked troops of Germany. And Joffre beat those troops back from before the very gates of Paris. It takes bravery of a finer kind than that demanded even of the sub-officer who leads a charge to vision victory when that cause for which one fights seems foredoomed to defeat. It takes bravery and determination against overwhelming odds...
...those who stand face to face with the fact of war see with a clearer vision, and know that the fore boding of those who have declared war is so ghastly are the words of cravens. We see men who have been striving after the futile things of life suddenly become magnificent in their vision. We see selfish men grown generous and careless men stirred to passion by the deep love of country. We see the awakening of a dormant people, and know how terrible are many of the ways of peace...
...settings surpassed anything recently seen at the Castle Square, except for the last act, and the second was a vision of beauty and atmosphere. The production was well above the average, and with the play's fineness added, this year's Prize Play Performance should stand high in the annals of Harvard and the drama