Word: naming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last five years the name of Harvard has been indelibly impressed upon the minds of the people of France. First it appeared in the form of the Harvard Ambulance, then the Harvard Surgical Unit. After our entry into the war the country saw an ever increasing number of Harvard officers and men. As we were told the other day by one who had been there, a Harvard newspaper was sold in various places in Paris. We have shown France what the University could do in times of war; we are now keeping the memory of our name warm...
...proposal to name the fund established by the action of the General Education Board for President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot has the hearty approval of the Harvard Corporation. President Eliot was for years a member of the General Education Board, and his services make it especially appropriate to name the endowment fund...
...group of officers, meeting by chance in Paris, decided that there ought to be such an organization. Thereupon they called a caucus of representatives of all the units in the American army abroad, which met in Paris. At this larger convention, which came together early this year, the name 'American Legion' was adopted, certain paragraphs of the constitution were ratified, an executive committee was appointed, and it was decided to hold another caucus in this country. A committee of 200 was formed to make arrangements for the national convention which was held in St. Louis...
...intended to make certain that every undergraduate have a speaking knowledge of French or German, but they have proved in reality only a superfluous test of knowledge already attained in the elementary language courses. If these examinations are to continue in the future it seems desirable to change their name and purpose, in order that they may be more than mere irritating "compulsories...
...growth of infidelity in Harvard than the Lampoon's travesty of the Boston Transcript. If the Lampoon had refused to believe in the usual accuracy of the first chapters of Genesis; if it had asserted that Mr. Phillip Oppenheim could not have written all the novels associated with his name; if it had urged that Ralph Waldo Trine is more spiritually nourishing than Ralph Waldo Emerson; such irreverence might reasonably have been attributed to the youthful extravagance of an epoch of change. But the Lampoon has gone further and has ventured to lay hands upon the essential foundations...