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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...letter ends with the statement that "we know as certainly as we know anything that the language of big guns alone is able to command respect for any nation." Does Germany, the country of big guns, command the respect of the world? It was not so long ago that an even more cynical militarist, Napoleon, made a similar statement, "God is on the side of the heaviest artillery...
...thinking of coming to Europe after College is over in June. In view of the interest already shown in the American Ambulance of Paris and the number of Harvard men already serving with the ambulances attached to the Army, I trust you will feel justified in publishing this letter...
...following had already won their letters: John Stacy Brown, Jr., '17, of Newport, R. I.; Laurence Curtis, 2d., '16, of Boston; and Captain Richard Norris Williams, 2d, '16, of Philadelphia, Pa. Richard Harte '71, of Philadelphia, has also won his letter, but has been playing baseball instead of tennis this spring...
Last week the CRIMSON sent a letter to President Wilson, signed by about 250 members of the University assuring him of the support of the undergraduates in the stand which he had taken in the present crisis, and pledging him our support in case a recourse to force proved necessary...
...President has requested me to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter of May 16th, and to thank you warmly for sending him the enclosure. He asks me to assure you and your associates of his genuine appreciation of this generous expression of confidence. He is greatly heartened by your pledge of support. Sincerely yours, J. P. TUMULTY, Sec. to the President. Mr. Richard E. Connell, The Harvard CRIMSON, Cambridge, Mass...