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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the declaration of the war, Harvard has demonstrated its splendid spirit of loyalty to the cause to which our country has devoted itself. Graduates and undergraduates have enlisted in all departments of the service on land and on sea. Now that the call has come to those who have been unable to go, to back up their fellows by means of the splendid work carried on by the War Council of the Y. M. C. A., they have proved themselves ready and have responded to the appeal of John R. Mott to give the fellows in the camps...
Today is the final day of the Phillips Brooks House clothing collection which has been going on since Monday morning. The 62 collectors who have been canvassing the various dormitories and houses will make their last call at the different rooms during the day, and tomorrow a wagon will call at all the dormitories for the articles gathered up. The clothes taken up in this way will be sent to various charitable institutions, while any old text books received will be turned over to the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library...
...they are trying to plaster us with names like Sammy and Teddy. If you see any of the people who are trying to label us, please let them know that the infantry soldier of the Regular Army has always called himself the "Doughboy," and as long as there is a Regular Army he will continue to call himself that. I have no reasons why he is that, but he seems to prefer it to all others...
...annual Phillips Brooks House fall clothing collection will begin on Monday. Collectors will then go the rounds of the various dormitories to gather up discarded clothing, old text-books and magazines. The collection will last through Tuesday and Wednesday, and a wagon will call at all the dormitories Thursday afternoon for the articles collected. All the text-books will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Loan Library for the use of poor students. The Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House makes two such collections each year with the object of giving students an opportunity to dispose of articles...
...hard to believe that the War Department will carry out its threat to call to the colors only fifty per cent of the graduates of the second training camps for reserve officers. To commission the remainder and send them to their homes for an indefinite period without pay would be a breach of promise on the part of the Government. The training camps full quota of officers would be immediately required. In consequence thousands of men beyond draft age gave up their jobs and suspended many responsibilities in the belief that their services were really needed. If these men pass...