Word: lets
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...caressingly tickles him just in front of the left ear, and thus arrayed in the scholastic armor, struts or strides proudly across the green but erupted Yard. He is a Senior--he needs no button nor mustache to proclaim that fact now. He is a Senior--let the world look and admire...
...quietly with their work, and remember the great consequence of their education. The young men who learn to use their minds about their lessons will later much more readily learn and hold fast the duties of the soldier or officer, when the actual need arrives. On no account let us fight unless forced in honor to do so, and then let us fight with all the courage and strength we can command...
These negotiations will take time, and in the meanwhile let as keep our heads cool. If war comes you will be judged by your deeds, not by your professions or your shouts of loyalty. Let us strive to have a little of the spirit that fills the officers and men of the army. Regular soldiers do not hold torchlight processions or make public demonstrations. Above all, do not take part in "rooting" to encourage others to do what you will not do yourself. Do not have so poor an opinion of your fellows as to think they need the stimulus...
...loyalty. To be swept by the whirlwind of excitement and eagerness into action, is not necessarily the highest patriotism, if the action is to be so much wasted effort. To keep to the field of study which is the undergraduate's in the present distribution of labor, and let the regular army do the work in its field--that of fighting--until the field becomes too large for it, is a far saner and none the less patriotic attitude. "Watchful Waiting" has not proved too successful in Washington but it is a catchword that may well be adopted at Harvard...
...will not grow, but because there is not enough money to defray the planting of such trees. To place trees a foot in diameter would cost anywhere from $100 to $300 apiece. There is hardly enough money even to meet the demands for proper care of shrubbery and trees, let alone providing for new installations...