Word: done
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Instead of putting the entire assemblage under canvas, as was done in the camps last summer, the supply of tent-age in the country is so low that the officials have found it necessary to build barracks. Each company will therefore be housed in a long, low frame structure, which will be heated by stoves and lighted by electricity...
Again, the college man drinks for friendship. His been hours represent those times when he may come the closest amity to his fellows. Poetry? Surely. But a fourth the things we do, and a half that are worth doing, are done for impractical reasons...
Today the University done its academic regalia and its military garb in honor of Marshal Joffre of France. Harvard has been led by remarkable men, it has nurtured remarkable men, it has entertained remarkable men. But never before has it had to do with a man who did a more remarkable thing than drive back the German battering-ram of armies...
...enters the first (I say a boy, there is no co-education in South America) at the age of nine. He remains in the primary grade for two years. Then he enters the secondary department and remains there for eight years. In these eight years he finishes the work done in grammar schools here, and completes that done in high school and college. To do this the work must necessarily be very hard. The average number of classes a day is six, and for each one there must be thorough preparation. The average South American, then, graduates when...
...This can never be done, however, so long as the American public remains apathetic to the shipping problem. Obsolete restrictive legislation must be repealed and friendly laws substituted; the accomplishment of this will come only from an enlightened public opinion. It is in the formation of this opinion that College men can perform a valuable and truly patriotic service because our centres of learning must be well-springs of correct opinion...