Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Club on New York City has 870 members in active army or navy service in the war, and 44 others who are in actual field service, in uniform, in the Red Cross or the Y. M. C. A. In addition, 337 members are in auxiliary, service of some kind...
...factor to be considered is that now, when the war makes it imperative to reduce all expenses to the minimum, is the time to inaugurate a reform of this kind. The high cost of rowing has always been traceable to the Poughkeepsie regatta, with its late date and its long and costly period of preliminary training. A plan which limits intercollegiate rowing to the academic year, which makes it possible for the student body to see its crews in action for its most important races, and which cuts expenses in half, is certainly worth serious consideration by the stewards...
...Harvard men do not need to seek independence of one kind, the independence of individuality, but you should keep Christian independence. I am not troubled with a passing thought of pacifism; I should willingly wipe out a whole German army corps, if I thought it would hasten the end of the war, but I would not hate. Keep your independence from such thought, and do not put your Christianity in storage during...
Many of the workers are engaged in some special form of special service. For example, six men are doing Juvenile Court and Associated Charities work, 15 are teaching Sunday Schools, and 10 are leading Boy Scout troops. The following table shows the exact number of men engaged and the kind of work done: Leaders of boys clubs, 156 Teaching, 31 Sunday School teachers, 15 Boy Scout leaders, 10 Probation workers, Juvenile Court, 4 Friendly visitors, Associated Charities, 2 Miscellaneous, 14 Total...
...instructors thought necessary to determine the quality of the work done. In no case was credit given unless the work done up to the time of leaving was of requisite quality, attested by examination which might be informal but must be substantial. In some instances, no tests of any kind could be arranged, and in consequence no credit could be given. Students who left early with credit for the year were required to furnish satisfactory evidence that they remained in national service through the period of the regular final examinations