Word: normale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard undergraduates have not been slow to realize the war's obligations. Our enrolment has shrunk to one-half its normal figure. Our student body has fully supported every war cause presented to the nation. There are times, however, when students have seemed to fail their country's demands. The charge of Harvard's indifference is largely exaggerated, but it is not entirely unfounded. A glaring example of it is afforded in the failure of the University to contribute properly to the second Red Cross Fund...
Finally, we must see that the war will some day end, and that at that time the status of peace with all its normal workings must be resumed. We must curtail all the non-essentials of ordinary life to as great an extent as the war demands. We must at all times remember, however, that in maintaining as much of a peace organization as is compatible with war-time needs, we will be effectively preparing for the future...
...University. The three-cornered contest is an innovation this year, suggested because of the war-time curtailment of athletics. Princeton has easily the best team of the three, with several letter men still in college, while Yale and the University are more nearly balanced, neither possessing material of normal calibre...
...view of the difficulty which many students have encountered in attempting to reconcile an unusual amount of military work with a normal schedule of courses, the Committee on the Choice of Electives, after a conference on the matter passed a vote yesterday ruling that courses taken in Military Science might replace their equivalent of distribution courses. It was decided, however, that only two full military courses might be counted in this way, and that scientific and language courses allied with war studies must be rated according to the established rules for concentration and distribution, as stated in the University publication...
...real potential aid to their country have enlisted their lives in its service, they will have assured the future as no college training can ever do. The duty of every red-blooded man is clear. When Harvard enrolment is drained to but a spectre of its normal standing, it in some measure have been...