Word: losses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University fencing team will have its first match of the year with Bowdoin on Friday, January 19. Bowdoin has developed a strong team this year from its usual supply of good material. The University team has sustained a great loss in the withdrawal of G. H. Code '18, manager and one of the mainstays of the team, who will be unable to fence this year because of illness. Nevertheless the team is unusually strong. The team, as it will oppose Bowdoin, will be composed of Captain W. H. Russell '18, R. Crimmins '19, E. Gay '19, and E. P. Hamilton...
...carrying out the field tests of the Provisional Regiment in 1912, as a distinguished member of the General Staff Corps, as military attaché to Berlin, and later as instructor at our Service Schools including the staff college. While his separation from Harvard at this time is a distinct loss, he is ordered to Washington to undertake a task of greater responsibility and importance to the nation. Captain Bjornstad is a splendid man with a master mind...
...retirement of Barrett Wendell from active professional duties at Harvard means the loss of all those forces for the advancement of learning which go into the making of any college "celebrity." A professor may become that figure by the possession of a unique personality or of a few striking idiosyncrasies only. Or he may radiate from his every glance and gesture a powerful and independent spirit, apt more to excite awe than to invite friendly or filial attachment. But whatever the qualities that go to the making of a college "celebrity" they are sure to be of the kind that...
...believe that he will not be with us next year. In his long career of thirty-six years from instructor to professor he has been the scarce of almost more instruction and inspiration than any other one man. His resignation is all the more unfortunate coming after the loss of three of Harvard's most prominent scholars--Professors Royce, Parker and Muensterberg...
This year Professor Wendell had dropped many of his courses preparatory to the step he has now taken. For that reason his loss is the less sudden. It is none the less unfortunate. Those of us who have encountered the personality of this broad and keen man realize what future generations of Harvard men are missing in his departure. Those who have not been fortunate to study under him still know the sympathy and the humanity of his interpretation of literature. Under his guidance students have learned to regard the masterpieces of literature with as much interest and intimacy...