Word: founds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course it is extremely difficult to secure a passport to any European country at this time, unless one can prove that he has been offered a specific chance for useful service over seas. Such chances are necessarily limited and difficult to locate. Where found, they require various qualifications on the part of those selected to fill them. The mere acts of getting in touch and of coming to some sort of terms with the various associations and government agencies which control reconstruction work on the other side, are sure to cost much uncertainty and loss of time...
Like a bolt from the blue comes the announcement that for business reasons Percy D. Haughton has found it necessary to server all official connection with Harvard football. More than even we realize how much confidence the University has placed in Coach Haughton's ability to develop its football teams. Nor has that confidence been misplaced. During the nine years of his career as head coach Haughton has developed his elevens with system and success always an apostle of sportsmanship and sane athletic method. We cherish the hope that circumstances may yet permit Haughton to occupy at least an advisory...
...positions in other countries and so far as possible to provide for their support from Harvard undergraduates, and as opportunity shall arise, to take such measures as are possible to localize and accentuate this interest." Before the war, the mission took a very active part in this work, and found many opportunities abroad for members of the University, but since 1917 it has been practically impossible to maintain any missions, and its usual plans had been almost completely given...
Even to those who have other fields as their ultimate aim, a year in the Merchant Marine would not be wasted. Many men have found that their adventurous spirit was whetted by war experiences, and are not content to resume the uneventful existence of their pre-war days. For men of this sort, the Merchant Marine, with its voyages and experiences through the seven seas, is the one vehicle by which such restless young Americans can gratify the spirit of pioneering awakened by the world...
Some such program should have been advanced long ago. We have gone on long enough fostering these little nationalities in our midst, all but encouraging them to organize, sometimes even withholding the means of their becoming acquainted with our language and institutions. Employers have often found that ignorant foreign labor was cheaper than American labor. Through this indifference of ours to the process of naturalization arose a large part of the trouble which the Department of Justice and the Secret Service have had with the "hyphenated Americans" during...