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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Contrary to the sybilline warnings of hopeful pessimists, the First Battalion returned from the firing line with no casualties. In so far as the top sergeants could check up, the companies were in possession of the normal number of ears and digits, manual and pedal. In spite of their being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock...
...influence of any great upheaval of the normal round of life is inspiring or depressing according to the age of men. The more stable has a man's mode of living become, the more he fears to see that mode thrown out of use, usurped by newer events. So at the outbreak of war on old men falls the horror of war, on young men the need of war, and on younger men the excitement...
...business in hand, in order that we may resume the business in hand with increased effort. No vast military good is accomplished by refusing to dance, to heal music and see plays, or to keep up our friendships. In a time of increased effort, indeed, a more than normal amount of amusement is needed, as has been found in warring nations, after the first hysteria of war nervousness has worn off. It might be urged that pleasure found by intense enjoyment is artificial. But all pleasure is artificial, provided we assume a pessimistic...
There is no reason why men should enter into the Class Day "celebration" with anything less than the normal spirit of the day. There is great reason why they should make it an occasion un-shadowed by gloomy references to the work which tomorrow they will...
...Harvard Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and preference will be given to such of those men as have had business training. By business training is meant either a regular course in a business school of collegiate or of graduate rank, or business experience sufficient to assure familiarity with normal requirements for the keeping of records and the receipt and issue of supplies. The course is intended for prospective officers of the line who will serve with troops: it is not intended for candidates for Quartermaster Corps work in either supply service of the interior or supply service of the line...