Word: guessed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ordered to present myself for physical examination for promotion last Sunday Guess who did it. Doc Deney of the Harvard crew! Ran into Paul Withington, Doc Derby, Elliot Cutler, etc., at the Harvard Hospital...
...guess I told you about having two men hit on my immediate right and one on my left in front of Y--. Nothing like being commissioned on the 13th, joining the 13th engineers, landing on foreign soil on the 13th, etc., for good luck. Incidentally, I went all over the Canadian trench tramways on the 13th, and believe me, it was a warm trip at times...
...whole. In other words, one of about every four members of the club is engaged in some form of service directly related to the war, with the men in auxiliary work outnumbered nearly three to one by those in active service. There would be an element of guess-work in applying this ration to the entire Harvard fellowship; yet we do not believe any serious miscalculation would result. --Alumni Bulleting...
President Lowell has said that he expected every man in College to have at least one military course on his study card. He does not expect anyone to give up all other branches of study. Our Faculty, as one may guess, is not an enemy combined against humanitarianism. But times change, and such changes make new study imperative. The world war has wrought a tremendous change, and we must understand the forces that are to decide that...
...purpose of existence, we should know the value of a human life, and how much or little the world is benefitted by the annihilation of that life in seeking tremendous goals. But since we do not know, nor even the shrewdest men, for all their cleverness, dare to guess, we cannot say what value to place on mortality, and whether it is better that men live their allotted term of three score years and ten heedless of the fall and rise of worlds, or whether it is better that men die before their time that great deeds may be accomplished...