Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Turning now to the issue of bonds as a method of war-finance, we see that it possesses none of those advantages. It penalizes the willing and leaves the pocketbooks of the less patriotic untouched. It places a financial difficulty on future generations; the amount of money it will realize is indefinite; its success may not always be assured. Yet despite all this, it possesses political and psychological advantages of undoubted merit. Where the public, already crushed by the tax-collector's demands, would not stand any increase in taxation, it gladly buys bonds. There is no better stimulus than...
...those who may plan comfortable holidays at home or away from it--merit the strictest censure. The coming months will be no time for white flannels and tennis racquets. Although the arm of the "slacker law" cannot reach behind the 21-year wall the under age loafer is no less a useless dead weight, hardly "worth his feed." With every shipyard and every farm calling for men, his duty to work is imperative. Of the three months and more of vacation ten weeks should be the minimum which he should give. Nor should those who attend the July Camp feel...
Enrolments for the University R. O. T. C. Camp yesterday reached a total of 638, less than two-thirds of the number which preparations are being made to accommodate. Of the men who have applied slightly over 200 are members of the University, the remainder coming from outside colleges, preparatory schools and graduates of various institutions. Inasmuch as it is important that as many members of the present Corps as possible attend the Camp, the military authorities emphatically repeated yesterday that no University R. O. T. C. man enrolling after June 7 would be regarded as eligible for a position...
...quartered in some out-of-the-way town and then let loose on their opponents like gladiators in the Roman stadiums. This year Princeton gave up its clubs to our teams and showed us every possible courtesy, and the University players came back impressed and somewhat ashamed of the less cordial manner with which we have been wont to treat our visitors. Little courtesies help to establish a better relationship between colleges and other universities, including Harvard, would do well to follow in the Tigers tracks. With all its evils it has taken the war to teach what sport...
Then came this present conflict, and with it casualty lists containing names with less historical interest for us. Our friends and our kin have spilled their blood in France. Our pain and anguish is now personal; it is our very own. The lists have been growing and growing until the number of Harvard men who have given their lives has swelled to eighty. And thus we find that Memorial Day has a meaning for us after all, that its purpose is a splendid one, that we welcome this occasion to hold corporate honor for all our brave defenders, but especially...