Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...publish the best in Harvard and Radcliffe." Such a prospectus is comprehensive, pretentious, and difficult of fulfillment, but shows the sort of boundless ambition that deserves laudation. Certainly their opportunity is golden, their well advertised inauguration propitious, but it remains to be seen if they can bring back the breath of life to the stagnant literary life of the undergraduate and lift again the torch dropped from the grasp of the dying Monthly...
Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., '06, 369th Regiment, has been awarded the Croix de Guerre. General Petain made the award with the following citation:--"Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., commander of Co. K, 369th Infantry Regiment, being on furlough; came back to spend his furlough with the regiment, knowing it had been engaged. Has rendered precious services--exposed incessantly to danger--before, during, and after the taking of a village, and in establishing contact between the regiment and his battalion...
Captain Wesselhoeft, in action near Verdun in November, 1918, went forward under heavy machine gun fire, to the aid of a wounded soldier. The fire was so heavy that the two were compelled to remain in the shell hole until nightfall, when the wounded man was carried back to safety...
Consequently, they are often obliged to fall back, though they may not wish to do so, on association with their fellow countrymen and on conversation in their native languages. Thus, particularly in the first and most difficult year for foreign students in the University, when the struggle should be made as easy as possible for them, they find their difficulties greatest...
...course of the war, however, has gone far to convince mankind that there can be no return to the old order of things. One of the mistakes of those who oppose a League of Peace is to think that any country in the world can go back to the place that it occupied five years ago. Not only are three great empires smashed, but the fourth--Germany, seems to be in the midst of civil war. If the world lets go, that country as well as Russia, Austro-Hungary and Turkey, are certain to plunge into confused and hopeless civil...