Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...darkly will burst in storm, or whether we shall yet continue for an indefinite period of weeks or years our troubled peace, we cannot tell. Our plans must be made for all possibilities. The plan for training officers will prove no less valuable if war shall not come now. From men trained in this manner may be formed the nucleus of the national army which most realize must come in a short time. We are not primarily preparing for war tomorrow; we are not preparing for war against Germany. We are preparing for war when war shall come, from whatever...
When the time comes, if the time should come, of just war Harvard will not fail. Until that time we must counsel how most wisely and most calmly we may prepare, and bring our counsels to fruition...
There are only about 30 candidates who report regularly for Freshman winter track, and more should come out to insure its success, and particularly the success of the Worcester meet. The events in which the squad is weakest are the 1,000-yard and 600-yard runs, and the hurdles. The team has a good high jumper in J. Buffington '20 and the members of the relay team, after their defeat of the Yale freshmen last Saturday, seem assured of their places. In all the other events, however, there is need of more candidates...
...official letter signed by President Lowell applying for the immediate establishment of a reserve officers' training unit at Harvard was sent to Washington last night. It is expected that the War Department will send the official confirmation within the next two days. Advice has come from Washington that there will be no objections to establishing a unit at Harvard, and by the beginning of the second half-year whatever military instruction is announced will have the sanction of the War Department, and the work completed will be credited to the students on the records of the War Department...
Since the crisis with Germany has taken place, the pacifists, headed by Mr. Bryan, have come to the fore, sporting a veritable menagery of peace-doves and soft drinks. I have talked with every advocate of pacifism that I could get close enough to on the street and they all say that, in the President's place, they would have applauded Germany for her latest move and rejoiced that the war was at last on a fair basis. I got several of them to endorse the statement that their lives were more valuable than their honor or their moral welfare...