Word: doned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...than the notion that a company can learn tactics in a chamber the size of an average lecture hall. To cross the Alps was a great feat in Hannibal's time; it was a simple move compared to giving about face in the Municipal Building. Something must be done for a joke is good only once, but this state of affairs cannot last all winter...
Harvard University is justly proud of the part which its graduates and undergraduates have done in war work. It is only natural that active military service should receive the greatest measure of praise, for with it go all dangers and hardships. Yet there are many other fields in which men may serve with great benefit to their nation. A group of University undergraduates has just finished a task, the completion of which deserves most honorable mention. These men gave up their Christmas vacation to go into the woods nearby and gather fuel to relieve the shortage so keenly felt...
...these days of chlorine gas, thermite bombs and other such instruments of carnage he is quite as indispensable on the battlefront as the builder of roads and bridges. All applied science, moreover, depends on pure science. It is in this latter field that the pioneering of research must be done. If we neglect pure science we shall in time have no science to apply. Any impairment of this country's present facilities for research in science, whether pure or applied, is therefore to be avoided if possible. --Boston Herald
...discussing the matter, Senator Lodge said: "The question has not come before Congress at this session, but the age limits for the draft were most fully considered at the time of the passage of the Act, and it seems to me doubtful if anything will be done to change them at the present time with over 9,000,000 men registered. I should certainly oppose any proposal of this nature...
...small initiation fee for such a society; even with war taxes on railroad fares and Pullman seats to be paid today there is not a man in the University who should not be a member by tonight. Let it be said once more that the University has done more than its allotted share...