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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Although we may feel it our duty to help drive the iron plough of war, we can seek, by our attendance, to prevent it entirely uprooting the fine flower of culture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALFRED NOYES' READING | 4/10/1917 | See Source »

...well to mock a tendency which has become all too general in America. The America of the "parlor snake" is not true America, and Harvard men should be the first to prove this. True art and even true social standards as well as true hearts in the trenches must help us in the eyes of Europe...

Author: By Thacher NELSON ., | Title: Lampy Rivals Vanity Fair | 4/10/1917 | See Source »

...solution of the problem of how best to perpetuate the name and fame of those who have made the supreme sacrifice for a foreign land. The Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship is a fitting testimonial to the unselfish generosity which inspired him who gave all that he had to help in the service of France. Monuments of bronze or stone are at best only transient. But through such a memorial as this the name of one among the many members of the University who have died either fighting or working for another country as loyally as they would for their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAPMAN SCHOLARSHIP | 4/10/1917 | See Source »

...sign up for the line of work they are best fitted for. Tonight, in Emerson J, Professor Johnston will further explain the different forms of military service. The many who have some particular bent, either mechanical or scientific, should not fail to hear Professor Johnston's advice which will help each one to solve his own individual problem of how best to serve his country in time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FORMS OF MILITARY SERVICE" | 4/9/1917 | See Source »

...near-great by examining whether their shoes are custom-made, or their hats come from New York. The prettiest fop does not show distinction in company front after an afternoon of drill in column and line formations. The assurance gained in talking to paid and obedient servants does not help greatly in telling a platoon of strong and aggressive men to deploy as skirmishers, and be excessively quick about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DEMOCRACY OF OLIVE-DRAB | 4/7/1917 | See Source »

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