Word: civil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Major Henry Lee Higginson, Hon. A.M. '82, President of the Union, and for many years identified with the University in different ways, is serving in this war by helping in the campaign for subscriptions to the Second Liberty Loan. Being a veteran of the Civil War he realizes what war means, and hence how necessary it is to raise a huge sum to carry on the work. He writes...
...honor to serve in the Civil War, and know what War means, and I am eighty-two years old. Because of these facts I take the liberty of writing you as follows...
...course the ambulance, medical, transport corps, etc., offer exceptional opportunities for men who are unable on account of physical disability to fight in the trenches,--but the efficient operation of these services, as well as of those in civil life, demands sufficient numbers of men of the utmost degree of intelligence and capability...
These classes include reading, spelling, grammar, composition, arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, business English, business arithmetic, geography, penmanship, book-keeping, mechanical and freehand drawing, physics, electricity, and chemistry; shorthand and civil law and civics; French, German, Latin, and Greek; English literature, debating, public speaking, and argumentation; botany; singing; mandolin, piano and cornet; violin and harmony in connection with the orchestra. There will also be a special department in civil service that will fit students for all grades and classes of public service...
...backs and ends. If we make good we win glory and distinction. The men whose duty it is to remain behind in college and in civil occupation of other kinds are the centre of the line. Theirs is the hard job. They plug along at dull work and if they make good, they receive no glory. But they receive what is infinitely more worthwhile, namely the inward satisfaction of having done the harder job; of having done it well without the inspiration or rewards...