Word: goings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...young men, who have gone, but I do fear for the men who were discouraged because they could not make the first team, and sank back to become athletic slackers when they were in college because they thought they were not good nough. They consider themselves good enough to go and fight their country's battles, however, and we, with our old system of athletics, in which we placed the premium on the specialized expert, have really denied them the physical training that they find so necessary now. Why should they sacrifice their lives if their lack of fitness makes...
...Western Front. Yet the happiness which can only be attained through much suffering, for the words happiness and victory are synonymous in the national vocabulary. The year we are just beginning is to be a long-remembered one in the history of the United States, for 1918 is going to show us whether our man-power and industries can successfully be transported to Europe and, more important than that, whether, when they arrive, they will be able to throw enough weight into the balance of the present deadlock to bring about a decisive victory. By spring our troops and ordnance...
...call to leave college and to plunge at once into something, anything more active and satisfying sounds as strongly as ever. Yet never has there been a time when circumstances more insistently demanded that it go unheeded. It is inconceivable that there will not be camps and more camps for the training of officers, there is already every assurance of another in May. If the under-age man can face his problem with clear-headed foresight, can see his friends and classmates leave, yet make his decision and force himself to stick to his work uncomplainingly, to accept its increased...
...telegram was received yesterday from A. H. Scheffer '03, assistant secretary of the Harvard Club of New York, inviting the 51 members of the R. O. T. C. who are going to the third officers' training camp at Yaphank to make use of the Harvard Club building on their way to the camp next month or on any week-ends when they may be in the city on leave of absence from the camp. This action has been prompted by the fact that many of the men have no acquaintances in New York and would have no place to go...
President and Mrs. Lowell cordially invite all students of the University who do not go away for the recess to their house, 17 Quincy street, on Christmas Eve, Monday, December 24, between 8 and 10 o'clock in the evening...