Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...come together with 75 and 80 per cent. respectively of their former numbers. It is in the post-graduate work that the largest percentage of loss comes. These men are of the age and attainments to be instantly of service to their country, so that here the number has fallen from 65 last year to 39 at the moment. This number usually rises because such students do not always report at the beginning of the term. There are a few Americans who are taking advanced work in chemistry or aeronautics, and quite an accession from foreign countries, Japan being represented...
...intention to run a naval camp during the summer for the boys who were not old enough to enlist, and we were going to run this camp in connection with the R. O. T. C.; but, as the Government has taken away all our military equipment, the plan has fallen through. Our plans for next year are of a somewhat larger and more ambitious scope. We have prevented to the best of our ability our boys from enlisting until they are of age. There will be, therefore, next year about 50 men who will still want naval training. Added...
...spared. It is not the men who die in battle, glorious and brave in their oblivion of the selfish animal instincts for self-preservation at any cost, who are pitiful. It is rather those who are left. Of such are the children of French soldiers who have fallen in battle...
...have been without honors in its own country, has filled to a certain extent the important post of Devil's Advocate amid the blatant orthodoxy of undergraduate life. And it has filled it, as anyone outside of College will tell you, with no little distinction. The Monthly has fallen a prey to all the ills that flesh is heir to, has had periods of wild absurdity and of utter dullness; but it has ever avoided that smiling self-complacency which is the predominating note of our other College papers. Nowhere, however, does a heretic find shorter shrift than...
...announcement of a memorial to one of Harvard's heroes who has fallen in the present war, in the form of an international scholarship is by far the most satisfactory solution of the problem of how best to perpetuate the name and fame of those who have made the supreme sacrifice for a foreign land. The Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship is a fitting testimonial to the unselfish generosity which inspired him who gave all that he had to help in the service of France. Monuments of bronze or stone are at best only transient. But through such a memorial...