Word: howe
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...battlefields of France. As the list has been compiled to date it shows that upwards of four hundred Harvard men have been engaged in various branches of service in the war. Nineteen among them have already lost their lives. Their names as compiled by M. A. de Wolfe Howe '87 for his forthcoming volume on "The Harvard Volunteers in Europe," are these...
...Preparedness in a nutshell" is the best phrase that could be used to describe Lucien Howe's new book. "Universal Military Education" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York). Dr. Howe has had valuable experience with young men of all ages and conditions, and, as he tells us in his preface, he soon learned in the course of his medical career "how much people might be improved by a little systematic training in promptness, exactness, restraint, efficiency and other soldierly qualities." And aside from the incalculable benefits to the individuals that should urge us toward, some system of military training...
...second chapter, Dr. Howe takes up that most complex and insoluble question, "What Protection is Adequate?" He shows our relative naval protection per mile of coast line compared with other nations, and the strength of our army on a war footing compared with our population and the territory we have to protect. He further explains the measures that have already been passed by Congress and shows their unsuitability to our needs at the present time. The remainder of the book contains valuable statistics on preparedness, what it can do for the individual and the best methods of impressing it upon...
...word, Dr. Howe's book makes one think,--and from a saner and more logical standpoint than one is generally as customed to think
...Howe, P. S., Jr., Matthews...