Word: calls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Club of New York to the 51 members of the University who are going to the third officers' training camp at Yaphank, commencing January 5. These cards have been made out in accordance with the list of names furnished by the Military Office and are awaiting call at the front office of the Club. The cards are of the special issue for military men, extending over a period of six months, and every 'Club privilege is possible with the sole proviso of cash paid for extra facilities enjoyed. Each card will bear the name of its holder...
...call to leave college and to plunge at once into something, anything more active and satisfying sounds as strongly as ever. Yet never has there been a time when circumstances more insistently demanded that it go unheeded. It is inconceivable that there will not be camps and more camps for the training of officers, there is already every assurance of another in May. If the under-age man can face his problem with clear-headed foresight, can see his friends and classmates leave, yet make his decision and force himself to stick to his work uncomplainingly, to accept its increased...
Nothing has so vividly brought home to the people of New England the value of the American Red Cross as the manner in which it was able to respond to the call for help from Halifax...
...months at Quantico, Va., we got off in the early part of September. As I stood a regular turn in the submarine watch,--two on and six off,--I can assure you very sincerely that the transports take no end of precautions to evade the 'fish,' as commanders call them. In thirteen days we sighted France, going slowly up a tiny river into a small port, just as dusk settled. Some women were waving American flags on the porches, or rather the door-steps of their tiny white houses, and I felt thrills leaping from my heart to my head...
Three-score pages and ten of the December Advocate are abroad in our midst. True, it opens with a reprint of "France," by John Macy '99, and for the sake of that "France" we could endure much. If you call a dog the Harvard Advocate, undergraduates will be inclined to love it; but unless the standards of the present Advocate not only improve but suffer a sea-change, even the faithful will fall off from...