Word: india
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Where will be your glory then, O Football? When the swift lightnings bear the joyous news, "Harvard has moved a bishop into Bombay's king row and captured India's queen...
...zone, indeed, but unlike France, Poland and Mesopotamia (the places we all have read about in connection with the war), and so far apart from our own home civilization that I am tempted to follow the accepted American missionaries' principle that "it's no use trying to describe India...
...Cornell fellows who came with us. Nash was sent directly to Murree, where the opening of a new field needed a man at once. The other Cornell fellow and myself were lucky enough to be sent down to Bangalore, away to the south and called the garden city of India. There we had a wonderful week of private lectures by some of the biggest missionaries in the country, inter- spersed with trips through Hindu temples where we had to take our shoes off. Finally we started on a 2,200 mile railroad trip that took us the entire length...
...Nash's job is to run the billiards, ping pong, checkers, chess (with occasional tournaments in all of them), and get a speaker for the Sunday evening sing-song. I manage the restaurant (with an average of 600 sales daily at about 2 cents each), provide a lecture on India every Wednesday, run a Bible class Sunday afternoon and a short prayer meeting every night, and spend every morning taking letters by dictation and such things in the hospital a mile away. Together we run "movies" on Friday and Saturday evenings, and on Thursday, which is both the soldiers' holiday...
...that all the men we are working with are Territorial who are awaiting their turn to go "up the Gulf," wounded and convalescents who come back with nerves shattered by the "hell" of Mesopotamian heat and disease, and regulars who have to guard the "no man's land" dividing India from Afghanistan and Kashmir. This work is as necessary as munitions factories and telegraphs in the organization of a big army and after all the stories I have heard from men who have been away up the Tigris, I don't believe I can complain at being spared the rotten...