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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be displayed and there will be specimens of the shells, great and small, that are used to feed the guns, of the grenades, and bombs used for aerial warfare, and of all the weapons of offence and defence. There are too, the aeroplanes which have seen service among the clouds at the front, and many relics, some of them gruesome, all characteristic of the terrible struggle. The airship in which Norman Prince '08 plunged to his death has been sent by special dispensation of the French government...
...public devotion. It will remain so, for unfortunately there is little hope that after the war there will be less need of military preparedness. Whatever is the outcome of the present conflict, it will leave for many years to come a vast accumulation of hatred, jealousy and mutual fear among all European nations. Germany, as the main butt of all these fears and hatreds, will agree to a reduc- tion of armament only if she receives adequate pledges that disarmament will not be used as a weapon to cripple her permanently...
...South is proud to claim Harvard graduates who are always among most prominent citizens. Although have many universities in the South with no mean standing, still our most brilliant lawyers and ablest ministers usually come from Harvard...
...given for exercise. Once the Y. M. C. A. has been organized fully, there are entertainments, work provided, trades to be resumed, educational classes to be attended and religious services. All this is brought about, not by workers from without, but by using the talent at hand, for among the prisoners there are professors, lawyers, financiers, doctors, ministers, athletes and representatives of every trade...
...somewhat more than 1,700 scholars, 35 teachers and 27 different courses of study. Soon after this, church services were begun in the same barrack. The Roman Catholic priest and the local Lutheran pastor were permitted to hold regular services. In connection with the church services the men organized among themselves a choir of 80 voices. Soon afterwards I was able to secure musical instruments for an orchestra of 14 players, all professional musicians. Since then they have had regular concerts in the school barracks during the winter...