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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With a total enrolment approximating 750 and three battalions instead of two now assured, the military courses will begin work tomorrow. A gain of more than 100 during the preceding 48 hours shows the excellent work of the Recruiting Committee. Today the campaign is to be continued more strenuously with a view to reaching every student in or out of Cambridge in order that expectations of President Lowell and other University authorities in regard to the courses may be fulfilled. To differentiate members of the corps from those not yet enrolled, and to assist in the recruiting, buttons are soon...
...Institute's freshman class is larger than ever, 504 against 450 of last year, with still a considerable number who took the entrance examinations in June and have not yet registered. The sophomore class as now registered actually shows a gain of five or six per cent, being 433 against 420 who were in the class of freshmen last June. The junior class assembles with 358 registered against 456 sophomores in June and the senior class now calls together 325 out of 484 juniors before the vacation. These upper classes, instead of being "shot to pieces," come together with...
...work of the business candidates consists mainly in soliciting advertisements and subscriptions. In addition a small amount of routine and clerical work is required. An unusual opportunity to gain business experience is thus offered to members of the Sophomore class, and in addition there is the prospect of coming into intimate contact with the large mercantile and advertising houses in this part of the country...
Beyond this war lies peace, when those of Harvard-sons who have passed through the struggle will take up with new hope the work of construction for which they have been trained. In that later time they will gain the fullest rewards of their training; not in this barbaric time, when the most martial nation has exalted its heroes to be almost gods...
...need to call upon our boys nor our old men to defend the nation or to gain victory. The knowledge rests with us that should such bitter need arise, as we may trust it never will, they will come, not in the tumultuous desire for excitement, but in the strong desire for service, equally brave...