Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wiser reflection one realizes that of such men no nation, even the very least, stands in need. Our strength would not be strengthened by their weakness, nor would the honor of our flag and the safety of our people be upheld by those who value above all honor and natural safety their own poor integrity...
Other service there is which calls for peaceful men. The ravages of battle leave untold numbers of the wounded, whose life or whose last comfort depends on the ministration of trained healers. Ambulance drivers, nurses, hospital attendants, they all, without even that indirect share in the devastation which we may lay on a munitions worker help in the work which is to be done in the noblest way that may be done...
From that time, almost a year and a half ago, when the first Regiment was formed, until now, Captain Cordier has been in charge of instructing Harvard men in the science of war. When he was first detailed at the University, our nation was at peace, and few men, even the wisest, thought the possibility more than remote that we should ever get in the German war. We still talked in terms of Mexico, and wondered whether we had an army sufficient to regulate to the law of stability that revolutionary state. As a nation we had no conception...
That which is done may not be undone, even by the deepest suffering of the doer. We have that promise which says: "Vergeance is mine; I will repay." But we, for all we may do, cannot repay, not even to the barest fraction. That is the tragedy of justice...
Students now regularly pursuing any of the courses scheduled in the following list must take the final examinations in them even if they have previously taken some or all of the special final examinations held from April...