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George von Lengerke Meyer '79, LL.D. '11, former Secretary of the Navy, and a member of the University Board of Overseers, died at his home, 54 Beacon street, Boston, late Saturday night after an illness of several weeks' duration...
...winter of our discontent," with its coalless days and congested railroads and other minor annoyances, is past. The spring, with its promise of abundant crops and increased industrial production, is here. Now is the time for America's Home Army to mobilize and thus bring courage to our boys in the trenches and cantonments, and depression to our enemies. Let Germany feel that this is a popular war in America. The effect of having the nation a unit in patriotic thought on this day cannot be over-estimated. It will bring renewed courage and hope to our brave allies...
Once more the war has been brought home to the University, and this time with more force and power than ever before. The War Records show that the number of Harvard men who have sacrificed their lives is steadily and rapidly growing. We cannot read the University's roll of honor without that intense and personal sorrow which alone can make us fully realize the great duties we will have to perform, and the great sacrifices we shall have to bear...
President and Mrs. Lowell will be at home and glad to see all students of the University tomorrow afternoon at their house, 17 Quincy street, from 4 until 6 o'clock...
...service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged in the manufacture of munitions. But it is now appreciated that the maintenance of the standards of our amateur athletics is of great importance as an auxiliary to war. It is far better to develop the boys "back home" for future service than to permit the quality of games to retrograde out of respect for the men who have gone to the front. The youthful tennis player or the freshman or sophomore ball player of today is the soldier of tomorrow. --Boston Transcript...