Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...truly wish were different. That is the number of Freshmen entering College this year. The class of 1921 is smaller than last year's Freshman class by 145. With such men as President Wilson and Major-General Wood urging young men to return to their studies we had hoped that the class of 1921 would be the largest ever. We did not hope this so that the University merely might have greater numbers but rather that the University might have a greater number to instruct in serving the nation well...
...remain at their studies this year. It is to be expected that the military course will be more leisurely, more inclusive and more thorough than could be had at a training camp. It may well fit men for positions in the staff, where an officer cannot hope for success who does not have some compreshension of strategy as well as tactios. Such comprehension can come only from deep and constructive study...
...conceive of the single life as entrusted with a purpose. If we fall of such conception, the terrors of this war are not to be approximated in the mere mortality of those who have died. Far more agonizing than the death of many million men is the death of hope. That has come when men decide it is not worth fighting for, the poor life...
...committee in charge of our Decennial Reunion to cancel the elaborate plans they had prepared for the affair and to confine the Class activities to the ceremonies on Commencement Day and an informal dinner to be held in Boston on the night before Commencement, which, it is hoped, all those in a position to do so will attend. The committee hope that the elaborate celebration planned for this June will simply be postponed until...
Beyond this war lies peace, when those of Harvard-sons who have passed through the struggle will take up with new hope the work of construction for which they have been trained. In that later time they will gain the fullest rewards of their training; not in this barbaric time, when the most martial nation has exalted its heroes to be almost gods...