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...motives which have caused and are still causing many of you to look for a place in the service before you are called are entirely worthy and noble. You feel that you are young, full of strength and enthusiasm. You realize that the first thing to do is to win--and you feel it would be extremely satisfactory both to your feelings and to your reason not merely to seize the chance of serving but to make for yourselves a chance of serving...
What are you supposed to be is a training school for officers. If your country has need of you, it is primarily as future officers. The war is not going to be over in a few weeks; there will be, as you know, a terrible loss of officers. Look at the British casualty lists for the last few weeks, and note the proportion of officers killed and wounded. It is by preparing yourselves as fully as possible to fulfil that function eventually that you will show the most intelligent realization of your duty. If you go and drive an ambulance...
...view of the number of Harvard teachers who have left the University for immediate war-work, and in prospect of the further reduction next year in the number of students attending Harvard College, especially in the three upper classes, it is reassuring to look over that elaborate bill of fare for 1918-19, the "elective pamphlet." It leads one to exclaim with Ulysses, "Tho' much is taken, much abides." In spite of a blank here and there to be replaced at a later day with a teacher's name, in spite of the recurrences of "Omitted...
...doubt about the Germans being subdued, but that victory will not come until there has been a full development of American fighting strength, and such an application of our developed strength that it will prove a determining factor in military action, is their view. They do not look upon the present German drive as action which if unsuccessful would result in an early ending of the war or which, if it should succeed in gaining and holding important objectives, would shorten the war. The only end of the war, as they see it, is the crushing of German military power...
...decidedly inferior mettle. American soldiers, officers and men, arrive in France, fresh from their training camps, without any doubts that their march toward Berlin is to continue peacefully uninterrupted. What a rude awakening they await! They swagger and boast before the seasoned soldiers of our Allies, who look on with amused tolerance and good nature, willing to be dominated and instructed at their own game, if only the newcomers can act as they talk...