Word: come
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...athletic season is over. The crew has come back from a victorious race against Yale; the University baseball and tennis teams have been humbled by the Elis, and thus the curtain falls on the first year of war-time sport. Looking back over the seasons, the University can hardly rejoice over its record. We have been unfortunate in every sport but rowing and we have plenty of cause for disappointment. But somehow the idea of sport solely for the sake of winning has disappeared; the mania for victory left us at the outbreak...
With this new spirit in games has come a new type of intercollegiate friendship. Princeton has been the leader in this movement and it is from her that we have learned that it is possible to treat your opponents like friends, not like allen enemies. In the olden days football teams used to be quartered in some out-of-the-way town and then let loose on their opponents like gladiators in the Roman stadiums. This year Princeton gave up its clubs to our teams and showed us every possible courtesy, and the University players came back impressed and somewhat...
...second, the professors and instructors of the University who have volunteered their services in conducting the classes. Some of the latter we have seen appear with their beautifully shined puttees wrong end to. Others have walked the streets with eight inches of shoe-string dragging behind. Still others have come to parade with their R. O. T. C. insignia at a slant of forty-five degrees. They have taken delight in the clandestine publication of orders. They have demanded attendance at lectures announced three hours before their occurrence. They have even advocated battalion parade in columns of squads...
...most opportune that this day should come at a time when our outlook is the darkest it has been since we entered the war. But it is on the darkest night that the stars shine brightest, and so these honored dead must take on a new brilliancy for us today...
...very appropriate that on the first May 30 after our actual participation in the struggle, the Memorial Society should lay a foundation for the Memorial Days to come, by instituting an actual Roll of Honor of the Harvard dead who will always be remembered. This list of seventy names will grow steadily and more and more rapidly. Fifty years from now our sons will tell their sons that on May 30 the United States pays tribute to the men who fought for their country in the Civil War and for the world in the Great...