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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...know that it is hard to stay at work here. It is harder to lie down under fire than charge at a greater risk. But if it is one's duty it must be done, and the soldier does not select his duty. He does what is considered best for the contingent as a whole. A. LAWRENCE LOWELL
...army (or in civil life if the war is over). Officers high in the army have expressed themselves in this way. In a letter received within a few days, General Leonard Wood refers to "the policy which you and I have been driving at, which is a sound one. 'The boys are to finish their work at the college and not go until they are wanted and can be used to advantage...
...One mile.--Cumner, Damon, Nally, Perrin, Weld, B. W. Boyden...
Weakened by the temporary absence from the game of four of its regular members, the University nine was defeated yesterday afternoon by Portland Naval Reserve by a score of 3 to 0. The Crimson aggregation outhit the visitors but was unable to connect in pinches. Only one earned run was scored during the contest, the other two being pushed across when the University left fielder failed to catch an easy fly and then threw over Gammack's head in an attempt to catch the runner at the plate...
...such a time as this it behooves every one of us to find the way to some active support of our cause. This war has come to mean force until life seems a hell on earth and all human relations appear unbearable. To consider its all embracing terror is to shudder. To find one's proper place in its cauldron of sacrifice and suffering is to find life and death worth experiencing. The whole world is a flaming building which we must extinguish. It calls, as nothing in history has called, for the aid of every available person who believes...