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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...help the Allies is by loans of money and the convoying of supply ships by war vessels. The Allies have enough money for the present, but the time is coming when they will need the financial aid of this country, and need it badly. I talked with a major of one of the British prison camps, and he told me that the German soldiers all believe that they are winning, but the spirit of France and England is as high as ever...
...Major-General Leonard Wood's advice to the students of Princeton in the present period of suspense and uncertainty has an equal value for the members of the University. At a mass meeting of all Princeton undergraduates last Sunday, held for the purpose of urging students to remain at Princeton and join the military units there rather than leave college and become scattered in various volunteer organizations throughout the country General Wood was not able to be present, but wrote a letter to President Hibben stating his views...
...announcement of Major-General Wood's transfer to the new Southeastern Department comes as a somewhat unpleasant surprise. General Wood has been so closely connected with all military activities at Harvard during the last two years that the loss of his valuable supervision and keen interest will be regretted by the entire University. No more splendid administrative record rests to the credit of any man. Added to this he has carried on a country-wide campaign for national preparedness that has aroused the youth of this country to their patriotic responsibilities and the older generation to the shocking need...
President emeritus, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55; president, Odin Barnes Robert '86; vice-president, Robert Frederick Herrick '90; treasurer, Frederick Sumner Meade '87; secretary, Philips Wingate Thompson '02; directors to serve until-April, 1920, Walter Cabot Baylies '84, Dr. David Cheever '97, Alexander Galt Grant '07, John Anderson Sweetser '11; committee on elections to serve until April, 1920, Roger Amory '10, Wells Blanchard '16, Charles Chester Lane '04, Henry Smith Thompson '99, William Tecumseh Sherman Thorndike, '15, Richard Wigglesworth '12, Edward Atkinson Winsor...
Professor Eugene Wambaugh '76, A.M., LL.B., LL.D., professor of Constitutional Law in the Law School, and major in the Reserve Officers Training Corps, will give instruction in military law to the R. O. T. C. after the April recess. Professor Wambaugh is to deliver six lectures to each section and instruction, which will cover "Articles of War and Manuals for Courts Martial," will be modeled, as far as the limited time permits, upon the instruction at West Point...