Word: land
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sermon of patience has been often preached. Moreover it has been the man in uniform who has generally been in the pulpit. He has calmly told us to bide our time and then has left for France, left for the land of mud and atrocities, while we must linger over our comparative literature and compose our souls in peace...
...natural for a young man, upon coming to Harvard from a strange land, to feel that he is an outsider, with few social interests in common with the native students. Unless such an attitude is checked at the start the foreigner will drift along through his college career without ever realizing an important phase of Harvard...
These two courses are offered to the men who by fortune or desire remain here. They are inclusive enough to satisfy the most ambitious, including as they do war on the land...
...Union, the week commencing September 24 will be observed throughout the country as "Library War Fund Week," and will be especially devoted to raising a fund of $1,000,000 for the construction, equipment and maintenance of soldiers' public libraries in every cantonment and camp in the land. Library facilities also are to be provided from this fund for the sailors afloat and ashore, for the wounded and the sick, and even for men on the firing line...
Russia, from which many of them came, does not need them, but she would avail herself of them as well as we. If they desire to upheave the world, and to mould it afresh in the image of their own desires they had far better begin in the land which was unfortunate enough to bring them forth, and among peoples of whose kin they are. If they desire absolute liberty of action, they had far better go to some uninhabited and desolate isle. For only when there are no other men within the bounds of intercourse may a man enjoy...