Word: fields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Christian Service in the Orient" will be the topic of an illustrated lecture to be given by Mr. Dwight H. Day in Phillips Brooks House tonight at 8 o'clock. Mr. Day made a trip around the world in 1915 and is in close touch with the missionary field in the East. The meeting, which is to be held under the auspices of the Boston Student Volunteer Union, is open to all members of the University...
...puppy? There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride, morale and scholastic incentive of the Harvard undergraduate? In which epoch was there the greater tendency toward exercise in the open? Personally I do not know, but I do know that these, among other things...
...much so -- and I present this as a thought, merely -- that when we adopt for the athletic field a system of endeavor less serious in its demands and less exalted in its obligations are we not operating to defeat the primary purposes of essential university work as already set forth? In other words, does not a boy, whether he be a Varsity man or a member of a class or whatever team, receive moral and physical benefit from any game in which he may play in proportion as he is taught and inspired to play that game to the limit...
Lieutenant Ralph Guy White, L. '16 died July 21, 1918, at Field Hospital No. 1, of wounds received on the Soissons Front. He entered the service April 13, 1917, and received his commission seven days later. Lieut, White sailed with the 26th Division in September, 1917, and went into action near Soissions in February, 1918. In March he was ordered away from the front, but returned again in July. He was Mortally wounded July 19 by machine gun fire...
Walton Kimball Smith, Law '15, a flight cadet in the Royal Air Force, was killed July--6, 1918, in an aeroplane accident at New Romney, England. After having failed to enter the United States Air Service because of Slight physical defects, he went to France to join the Field Service. On his arrival, however, finding, that he could join the British aviation service, he enlisted in that organization in December, 1918. He trained at No. 1 Observer's School of Aerial Gunnery. He would have received his commission the week following his death...