Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those students whose personal experience with life in the University includes war and even pre-war times are interested observers of the rapid transformation which is bringing us back to the normal order of what the outside world loves to term "college life." The signing of the armistice last November marked a very low point in the tide of college activities beyond the regular courses. At that time practically every activity which in some degree did not spring from military courses was either non-existent or well along the road to become so. The ink was searcely...
Formal athletic teams once more are organized to compete with officially recognized opponents. College publications are again turning out their issues as in former times. Classes have changed from uniform to civilian dress, and their numbers have doubled, trebled, and even quadrupled in some instances. The once magic words "military duties" have lost their previously infallible power to calm instructors who wax wroth at sins of ommission and commission. There is also a growing spirit of optimism in the air, due to the replacement of the uncertain future of war times by the more discernable future in days of peace...
...short the full but unfinished career of Lincoln, thereby bringing loss equally to friend and foe, his plans for national reconstruction were based upon the lasting principles of "malice toward none, charity to all, firmness in the right." In a broad sense these are the ideals which America is even now staunchly upholding at the Peace Conference as the only tenable program of international reconstruction...
President Taft, in his message to the University, speaks in this manner: "Indifference and even opposition will be met, but among you college men this must not be." In other words the colleges should lead in the discussion of this vital matter as they have led in such discussions through all history. If thoughtful men of the world are unable to reach any conclusion in regard to it and the whole proposition is lost in the diplomatic shuffle we shall be forced to admit that as our nation was unprepared for was so is it unprepared for peace...
...wish to one and all of our fellow-workers in the war a safe return from the scenes of their labors. They have added lustre even to the fame of Harvard; and have forged a new and enduring link in the bonds of loyal regard by which we shall ever be united. Believe me, My dear Mr. President, ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR...