Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...resolve. As the order stands it is only designed to exclude from the university's college of arts and sciences all aliens of military age who claim exemption from military service on account of their alien status, and who have not applied for naturalization. As such, the faculty's action is purely a war measure, and even so is a matter of merit...
There are three great incentives in this campaign. There is the need of supporting the organization which keeps our military establishment fit; there is the great appeal of alleviating human suffering; and there is the baser but important stimulant to action of the smallness of the solicited contribution. If such appeals fail to pierce the student's armor of indifference, Harvard's future is a sad one. Everyone has at least something to give. The man who cannot sacrifice for such a cause is no man at all. He lacks the essentials of true national spirit. Today is the last...
...Action was also taken by the Council on the matter of awarding numerals to certain Freshman teams. It was decided to award insignia to those members of the 1921 swimming team who competed against Yale as follows: J. H. Eaton, N. R. Knox, A. Levy, E. C. Mott-Smith, F. S. Stranahan, E. R. Sumner, P. Tishman and H. W. Toepke. It was also voted to award numerals to those members of the Freshman tennis team who compete against Yale 1921 in the dual contest next Saturday...
Lieutenant James Palache '18, of Farmington, Conn., has been killed in action in France during a recent battle. His name was published incorrectly in Sunday's papers and his address given as New York in a dispatch from General Pershing, and it was not discovered until yesterday that he was the one referred to Palache prepared at the Thatcher School in California, and was manager of his Freshman baseball team...
This statement was given out yesterday by the College Office; the action being taken as a result of the War Department Order which permits all men in the R. O. T. C., whether taking Military Science 1 or 2, to apply for admission to the June under-age camp. This order was received yesterday by Military Headquarters and states that the War Department has been disappointed in the number of applicants...