Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...academic regalia and its military garb in honor of Marshal Joffre of France. Harvard has been led by remarkable men, it has nurtured remarkable men, it has entertained remarkable men. But never before has it had to do with a man who did a more remarkable thing than drive back the German battering-ram of armies...
...Administrative Staff and Tactical Instructors of the Department of Military Science and Tactics are continuing preparations for the course of training here. Sixty gallery practice rifles have been ordered, and beginning May 22, regular rifle practice will be held on the 48 targets which are to be placed in back of the Stadium. These rifles are of 22 calibre, but the same in size and weight as the Regular Army musket. Later each battalion will spend a week in camp on the rifle range at Wakefield, devoting the entire time to rifle practice...
...Cross to organize. The functions of the Red Cross Ambulance Companies correspond with those of the Evacuation Ambulance Companies of the regular army. They will probably be used mainly in the transportation of the sick and wounded from the front to hospitals along the line of communication as far back as the base hospitals. But although their duties are mainly to furnish transportation for the injured the personnel may be used in whole or in part to man hospital trains, hospital ships, or if the need is great, the emergency hospitals
...honored at Harvard as a man who has done great things. His fame is not the fame born of conquest nor ambition. La Patrie called him when her life seemed failing before that first terrible iron rush of the picked troops of Germany. And Joffre beat those troops back from before the very gates of Paris. It takes bravery of a finer kind than that demanded even of the sub-officer who leads a charge to vision victory when that cause for which one fights seems foredoomed to defeat. It takes bravery and determination against overwhelming odds...
...unwilling and unsharing victims of the war may be relieved from the bare threat of lack of nourishment. Harvard is asked to do its share. Our share can be nothing less than the furthest dollar which we may spare from other and less vital needs. We may never give back to those children the happiness that they have lost, nor abate their desolation in one degree. Yet we may from our abundance spare enough to keep them from starvation, that they may grow to independence free from the stigma of pauperism. It is not charity that is asked...