Word: farness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...except that it was condensed. Intended at first to last only three weeks, the period of instruction was extended to September 15 by the War Department--a change which was of great benefit to the student officers, for the last week was by far the most instructive of the four. The more important lectures given to the R. O. T. C. were repeated, and several new lectures were delivered by the new members of the Mission...
...adventure, and in young men the latter impulse may become stronger than the first. Many misled by the bugles and banners of war, thought to undertake it lightly as they had undertaken other pursuits lightly. We must acknowledge that war, in its most poetic and gaudy guise, is far too terrible a work to be undertaken lightly. For such men a continuation of their college course would be the best course, both as regards themselves and their nation...
...close of the usual College year leaves the Corps, which has been in the last four months such an intimate part of the College, with a future which we must regard with truth as doubtful, in so far as its primary purpose is concerned...
...Committee inappropriate to hold an elaborate or expensive celebration." The Secretary of 1897 writes that "the conclusion reached by the Class Committee that the 20th Reunion be reduced to the minimum of expense and effort in the form of a simple class dinner represents an apparently unanimous view, so far as any expression of opinion has come to the attention of the Secretary. Perhaps under brighter skies we may some day recover this vanished celebration." For 1902 "this year it was proposed, as is the custom, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the class. This was to be carried...
Remember this, you men who have been nurtured here: Wars come and go, and men come and go, but Harvard, which has nourished men in her high ideals, and those other great universities which keep in trust our culture, will not perish till our civilization perishes. To that far time we need not look...