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Caption: Booklet - Element of Inspiration in the Schools (1902)
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362 UNIVERSITY i>v i HI: STATE OF NKW JTOBK [2fl DJ rush line of a 'varsity football team on one cool October aftei noon than in sonic 'varsiiv classrooms in a whole s e m e s t e r . [llustrate and enforce the claims of public service. We an beginning to learn, what we have never seemed to realize before, that ear public life must sustain assaults, and thai government is more a burden than a pastime. Tell pupils about this Talk quite as much o( the responsibilities and duties as of th< rights ami privileges of citizenship. Le1 them know something of what men have suffered to establish order and create oppor tunnies for boys and girls. Last spring a little party of American boys, hardly beyond the college age, came sailing through the Golden Gate and landed on our western shore. They had been, al our instance and as our representatives, following the streams and threading the jungles on the other side of the world, to establish the order which the flag of the Union signifies and so confer on other millions of people the opportunities of freemen. 15 such boys had fallen into ambush a year before. Two were killed. TWO were mortally wounded, and two others seriously wounded. The living ^ere placed for execution. McDonald, mortally wounded, begged a comrade to hold him up in the death Iin< that lie might die like a man. Gilmour demanded thai the cowards should remove the bandages from the eves of the men that they might die like American soldiers. Poor McDonald fainted and died in Walton's arms. Al the supreme moment the insurgents exchanged death for torture and for L months O it was inflicted. Again the order was issued for execution, and again the rifle blast was stopped by fear of retribution. Then a raiscreanl general directed that they be murdered, and the officer commissioned to perform the crime quailed and saved the hero band. Then other gallant boys, disciplined to the dar in - and Hi-- hardships of United States regulars, following for weary months with little sleep, and little food, and little encouragement from the far away homes across the seas, overtook their starving and staggering comrades, put the strong arm of
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