Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final number enrolled in Military Science and Tactics 1 will decide whether Harvard remains in the van of the preparedness movement. The tradition of voluntary military service, born in the days of Revolutionary and Civil wars, was continued and strengthened by the formation of the Regiment last year. The failure to establish two units of the reserve officers' training corps at Harvard will shatter the tradition. The country must have reserve officers to lead the volunteer units and Harvard, instead of showing one hundred and fifty men in training, ought to show her proportionate share, six hundred future reserve officers...
...Harvard's part in the Civil War," said Captain Cordier, "is enough to inspire any man, for of the enormous number of officers and privates which were furnished, only one received a dishonor- able discharge. With conditions such as they are today, you must do your part, and the only way in which you can do that part well is to be thoroughly prepared and to know what you are about...
After an illness of two weeks, Professor Josiah Royce, Alford Professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity, died from arterio sclerosis, at his home in Cambridge on September 14. The funeral was held in Appleton Chapel last Saturday, Professor James Hardy Ropes of the Divinity School officiating...
...Widener Library has lately received from Mr. George Rapall Noyes '84, of Norwich, Conn., four manuscript volumes containing the letters of his uncle, John B. Noyes, of the Class of 1858. Noyes enlisted as a private early in the Civil War, became a captain of the 28th Massachusetts Volunteers, and after passing through a long and active service, including Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and Petersburg, was brevetted Colonel U. S. Volunteers. His letters were written to various members of his family, and form an unbroken series from his first garrison duty...
...Recent Biographies" contains three reviews of books about Harvard men. Mr. W. C. Ford, M.A. '07, discusses the autobiography of Charles Francis Adams. "Union Portraits," a description of some of the Northern leaders in the Civil War, by Gamaliel Bradford '86, is reviewed by Mr. W. R. Thayer '81. Dean Castle treats "Theodore Roosevelt: The Logic of His Career," by C. G. Washburn...