Word: gained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first group, always the most popular, has gained slightly over last year, a record number of 276 men choosing this field. Romance Languages shows the greatest gain in this group...
Group two, as usual, claims between one-fourth and one-fifth of the class. Physics shows the greatest gain, with ten men from 1919 as against one for 1918. Chemistry leads the group with a total of 78 men, six more than ever before...
...subaltern. Military science has progressed so much in recent years as to require the highest degree of training on the part of the officer. To exercise intelligent command of troops, to know how to lead and to care for men, to make brain and body meter with the greatest gain and the minimum loss, mean close study and constant application covering a period of years, not months...
...substitutes but the feat of a thousand men and their officers. So large a representation could be taken as the measure of Harvard's whole undergraduate body. It made no difference that the crowd of spectators was thousands less than the throng which goes to a football game to gain public applause, they entered to help prepare themselves for an hour of national need. Their enrolment, the manner in which they have discharged their duties, their appearance today in the Stadium incarnated Harvard spirit at its best and its broadest. All honor and long life to the Harvard Regiment...
...making due allowance for these things, it is quite possible for anyone to gain from the news a tolerably correct idea of the course of the war. For those who cannot give the time necessary for reading critically the full dispatches day by day, the weekly periodicals provide a means for keeping well informed. There is no excuse for contemporary ignorance of one of the most tremendous periods in the world's history...