Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second, by his winning personality; and third, by his interest in all Harvard activities and more especially in the Harvard regiments of the last few years. When the General was sent to Funston we were chagrined; we had expected that he would be one of the first to lead American troops in France. We were disappointed there; instead of going abroad with one of the Regular Army divisions General Wood was given command of Camp Funston and charged with training forty thousand civilians into soldiers. In so doing he used some of our last year...
...America's privileges, this declaration by Western Reserve is fraught, however, with a still more important suggestiveness for the future. Why should it not become a fixed custom among all America's colleges to refuse admission to aliens who have not put themselves in the way of becoming American citizens? Cordial exceptions would certainly have to be established for foreign students coming to this country only to study and not for permanent residence. But in the case of all those, born outside of the United States, who have attained the age and qualifications entitling them to undertake work...
This would be of at least appreciable help in the campaign to Americanize America, which we have so long neglected, but which we see now is most urgent. In the fact that a man is an American college graduate is not to be taken as incontestable evidence that he is also an American citizen, then we have little upon which we can come to sure anchor. --Boston Transcript...
...from the President himself down to the office attendants, and from George Washington Cram to George Washington Terry. No mercy is shown; the Horrible Truth has been divulged. Whispers have run about already that a certain professor was a bit dull, that another loved the truth better than the American revolutionists, and that a certain young lady connected with U9 excelled in personal pulchritude. The facts, however, are now for the first time set down in print...
Today's exercise brings to a close the year's work of the R. O. T. C. All we have learned of close and open order, of French and American formations, and of discipline we shall have to show in the short space of two hours. The R. O. T. C. authorities sent from a dozen or more outside colleges will be careful and critical observers, and their favorable judgment cannot be obtained by a careless display. To a large extent the success of the Corps as a whole this year will be gauged from today's work...