Word: deal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...honor which the War Department has shown the Corps, for the War Department does not deal in honors. It is a recognition of merit...
...Thank goodness that a good influence is as contagious as a bad one and a good deal more so." Two or three fellows who get together with the real "Christian spirit" have more power than those who get together with bad intentions. Two or three who are brave enough to take a stand for what they really belive in will soon find that they have obtained a real following and that their little group has been doubled or quadrupled. He advised the Freshmen to come together in such small groups to think things over and really get to understand themselves...
...have entered or returned to college to carfy forward their intellectual training are still students, or potential scholars, and not merely soldiers and sailors in the making. Before coming to Harvard, as to all the other colleges, for this year of study, they must have heard a great deal of sage counsel, finally warranted by their own inward voices. Alumni Bulletin...
There will be a great deal of consolation for many hundreds of men on the battle-fields and the battle seas of Europe, to know that there are eleven good men and true, wearing the crimson jersey and pushing the muddy ball down the long field against the tide of defeat. Memory holds men more strongly than present discomfort. There are many loyal sons of Harvard, who, though disaster compass them about, will forget their weariness of limb and spirit when they hear the news from how that the team played a great game. Theirs will be the clear remembrance...
Harvard University has done a great deal in showing the country the worth of "seats of learning." At the declaration of war President Lowell had secured French officers who were trained in a war laboratory. A reserve officers' training corps was established which sent over 600 men well grounded in military elements to secure commissions at government training camps. Many other branches of service likewise drew from this source to increase their number of skilled laborers. Harvard only needed to be told what to teach and did the best that could be done...