Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant Lionel de Jersey Harvard '15, of the Grenadier Guards, is reported in the dispatches as having been killed in action in Flanders on March 30. Harvard, who is the second of his family to lay down his life for England, enlisted in 1915 immediately after receiving his degree, and was once wounded in his first year of service. Since then he has distinguished himself at Ypres and later at Cambral, where he commanded King's Company in the attack near Fontaine Notre Dame...
Theodore Roosevelt has sounded the keynote of what should be every American's attitude in the war, when he declared recently that patriotic words are only worth while when they have as their basis patriotic actions. Speech is cheap. An insincere man can often utter as noble words as one of undoubted sincerity. High-sounding verbosity will never defeat Germany, nor will it go far toward arousing others of our nation to action. A single heroic death in France, the simple report, "Killed in action," is far more effective than the words of all the statesmen of America...
...hours after he was wounded in action with the American forces in France on March 13, Captain Archibald Roosevelt '17 lay in a muddy trench under fire, suffering great agony from a shrapnel wound in the knee and a broken arm, according to a letter received by Dr. Joshuah Hartwell. The letter contains the first definite news regarding the extent of Captain Roosevelt's wounds and the circumstances under which they were received...
...College who at the beginning or the end of the spring recess fails to register at the time set for that purpose, may be required to pay to the Bursar a fee of $5 before being permitted to register. Payment of this fee, however, does not preclude action by the Administrative Board in the cases of students who register late...
...students other than those entering military and naval service the work of the University will go on as usual until the end of the academic year. The opinion expressed by the Faculty when corresponding action was taken last year will still hold good this year. It is, "That in the opinion of the Faculty, students who do not enter the military, naval, or ambulance service, or special training therefor, should continue their academic work until the close of the year...