Word: human
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mind, giving life and vividness to thought of the highest subtlety. And beneath all this was a rare personal kindliness and hospitality. No differences of judgment in matters that are trying the souls of men in our day can obscure our sense of these services and those engaging human qualities." --Boston Post...
This large view of human nobility is characteristic of the best traditions of Harvard. It recognizes the fact, too often lost sight of by many good people in this country, that it takes just as much valor, just as high a conception of duty, just as intelligent a comprehension of issues, to fight on one side of the world long line that has divided civilization, as on the other...
...Human life on the 'western front is as precarious today as it has ever been in the history of man. I cannot give the exact average length of life in the front trenches, but I know that it is measured in weeks rather than months, and perhaps in days. In the beginning, the small Expeditionary force held on to the long line with ever-diminishing numbers but were mercifully relieved in May of 1915 by the first Kitchener division, the Ninth, of which my regiment was a part. This ended the first stage of the war, but the second continued...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier and author, will lecture on "The Human Side of French Warfare" in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Tickets at one dollar may be obtained at Amee's and at the door, the proceeds of the lecture going to the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee, which supplies medical materials for the Harvard Surgical Unit in France...
...Lecture. "The Human Side of Trench Warfare," by Captain Ian Hay Beith. Sanders Theatre...