Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fellows whose fathers did not happen to send them to college, and who, if they happen to be shot or to die of yellow fever, will be no great loss to the republic. The Harvard men who have already gone are described as most unworthily "scrambling" to reach Cuba...
...support the nation with loyalty of a "possibly illogical nature." Perhaps he thinks the present Senior class will agree with him in his picture of the men they honored by refusing to withdraw their names from the list of Class Day Officers, as "scrambling for a landing in Cuba" under a "morbid impulse for personal excitement." Perhaps it is becoming for men who have been so fortunate as to receive the best education the country can give, to openly taunt patriotic fellow-countrymen by assuring them that their "loss by yellow fever will mean much less to the country than...
...those who die of disease. In the Crimean war the proportion was one to twelve; in our Civil War, however, only one to two. To keep the troops in perfect physical condition is the great aim of modern sanitary precautions in the army. Especially in a country like Cuba must impure water be avoided, as the germs of yellow fever are found in it. It should be the care of officers to rest their men whenever possible; of each man to keep himself in as perfect health as possible...
Geological Club. Paper: The Physiography of Cuba. Mr. J. M. Boutwell. Geological Laboratory, Room...
Geological Club. Paper: The Physiography of Cuba. Mr. J. M. Boutwell. Geological Laboratory, Room...