Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...human side of the war comes back to us vividly with the Harvard Surgical Unit. Two years before America had decided to send soldiers to Europe this little band of humanitarians went out. Now they come back with an astounding record of service, more than 150,000 casualties handled in their hospital alone...
...tide of battle pushed the Huns back. They yielded. Victory came. Now those of the noble brood who did not give up their lives on the field of honor are returning. With sober face, Harvard bids them back. She realizes that they have gained in power and wisdom that which would have taken her years to give them. But for their own benefit she is encouraging them to return to the detailed study of facts upon which success in life is based. At the same time she has made it as easy as possible for them to enter the courses...
Before the war the Sodality maintained an orchestra of about forty pieces which was rehearsed under the direction of musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra. About fifteen old men are back in College and they will form a substantial nucleus for a new organization. It is planned to give regular performances in the Paine Concert Hall and New York...
...Faculty of the School who have been engaged in war work have returned in time for this session. Among these are Professor P. T. Cherington, Professor O. M. W. Sprague '94, and Assistant Professor M. T. Copeland Ph.D. '07. Every member of the regular staff is now back except Dean E. F. Gay and Professor W. J. Cunningham...
...January Number of the Advocate is uncommonly interesting. It is plain that after the destruction and the distraction of war the old College is emerging--not settling back--to its own plane once more, and that what Stevenson has called "an unwavering creative purpose" is again asserting itself. Not that the strokes of the artist are always sure, or his lines and modelling free from false touches or even ugly angles. This is illustrated in the imagistic verses, of which there are two rather ambitious contributions, "The Beggar" and "Lights and Snows"; also in the stories "Yestdo" and "The Glory...