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Dates: during 1910-1919
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WASHINGTON, D. C., FEB. 5, 1917.--Replying to your telegram of the 4th, the Government in the present crisis should receive the hearty support of every citizen, regardless of party or prejudice. Harvard has always been foremost in improving its patriotism by deeds. Let the University maintain the record of the past through indicating the willingness of its student body to serve in any capacity which may be required and to that end opening facilities for the enrolment of volunteers prepared to enlist on the President's call...
...order to maintain an international position of dignity, the entire country's attention must be focused upon the problem of developing adequate military and naval forces in the miminum period of time. War may never come, but prepared we must be or disaster awaits...
President Lowell closes his report with the significant statement that by raising the tuition, Harvard has drawn on her last source of supply. If she is to maintain her present position among American universities and attract men who can adequately fill the chairs of the great professors whom she has lost by death or resignation during the present year, more funds must be forthcoming. The $10,000,000 endowment fund is the best answer which Harvard's graduates can give to this plea...
...talk the matter over with men of experience and get an idea of the conditions under which the Ambulance Service does its work and of the pressing need for a still greater number of volunteers. Harvard's record so far is above reproach, but in order to maintain her present numerical superiority it is hoped that as many men as possible will hand in their names to the committee in charge of the booth...
...year, Cornell can go Harvard just this one better, even thought it is evident that this index of universality is by no means an adequate or even an important test of an institution's national character. But considering the situation roughly, it still appears probable that Cornell could safely maintain title among all our national universities as the institution which comes nearer to the establishment of its national character on a basis of proportional representation among all the states than could other universities. Certainly it is much more nearly national in this respect than are the large universities...