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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must be confessed that the military ardor is never purely a desire for service, unmixed with the love of adventure, and in young men the latter impulse may become stronger than the first. Many misled by the bugles and banners of war, thought to undertake it lightly as they had undertaken other pursuits lightly. We must acknowledge that war, in its most poetic and gaudy guise, is far too terrible a work to be undertaken lightly. For such men a continuation of their college course would be the best course, both as regards themselves and their nation...
...value lessened. Those men who began training with the idea of learning will not be frightened by the Timor or panic of those who follow like sheep in the path where everybody says everybody should go. Here is the work which is to be done. Work well done will never be without result...
...graduates are always welcomed, for they see in us a memory, however slight of that which they once were. Although they are sure that in the golden mirage of their youth they were never so callous, nor so ignorant, nor so self-satisfied. And so, in mutual reflection and compassion we shall meet each other...
...world, which has seen many dark tumults unshaken, and passed through the rise and death of principalities and empires. Nor is it the end and consummation of individual lives. It is a sad necessity which has come on us to be fulfilled; but it can never be the goal of our ambitions, nor can we narrow our vision by refusing to look beyond...
...training which Harvard gives has never been primarily the soldiers training, save as all education trains for service and sacrifice. It has been a liberal broadening of mind which should make Harvard men leaders of peace, of science, and culture. That Harvard men should, when confronted with the cold fact of war be able to turn from those careers which they had planned to the new and urgent service is a tribute to the general abilities which they have attained. It is not a tribute to any unusually fierce or bellicose qualities of mind...