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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Similar mass meetings at stated intervals to discuss international questions. The finest speakers in America can be procured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Union | 2/7/1919 | See Source »

...course of the past year with its tremendous changes in life and institutions the University has been called upon to bear as heavy a toll of its finest figures as perhaps any academic organization in the country. While the war casualties are still appearing we have the news of the death, first of a distinguished graduate and now of a cherished teacher. Any attempt to express our sorrow or adequately to appreciate their lives must end in failure. Greatness we may attribute to a historical figure. It is not enough to assign to one we knew personally and admired...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANOTHER LOSS. | 1/11/1919 | See Source »

Dunster Hall, on Dunster Street, was built in the nineties and at the time was the finest private dormitory in the neighborhood of the University grounds. Little's Block is situated on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Dunster Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dormitories Bought by University | 12/13/1918 | See Source »

...present time, John Gallishaw, a former member of this University, is recovering from wounds received while fighting with the American Expeditionary Force in France. Most of us know of his heroic work with the Newfound-landers at Gallipoli, but the finest part of his career has been scarcely mentioned. After recovering from very serious wounds received in action, he was discharged from the British army as a veteran unfit for further service, and returned to America. When we declared war, however, and the draft was put in to effect, he was called for examination. In spite of his recent marriage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN GALLISHAW | 10/4/1918 | See Source »

...France and have seen war stripped of its garnishings, ineffectually try to stem the tide of current opinion. Nothing but time and suffering can do it, and how intensely painful the realization is going to be! We will find that, though we are sending to France armies of the finest raw material, there are others of just as good courage that will struggle with and against them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN HYSTERIA | 4/12/1918 | See Source »

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