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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with many other officers soon left the regiment for instructions in the ways and means of playing the game. And we've been getting it for the past couple of months in a manner that makes one itch for the actual hunting grounds. Sir, I admire, sympathize with, and love the French, but it's the British to whom I give my respect. They've got the 'spirit of the bayonet'; they've changed their easy going temperament and, taught by bitter experience, answer the cry 'Kamerad' with a short sharp jab; they're fighting mad, playing the game...
...never heard of such a man, indeed it's been a succession of hearing, learning, and putting into practice new things, new methods of killing the enemy. The old fashioned all round infantryman is but a shade of past glories; today everyone is a specialist in some one particular thing, and informed in all things generally. Gas, with its terrifying results, trench mortars, automatic rifles, grenades, bayonets, wire entanglements, trenches, communication systems, aeroplanes,--what not? All have men who speak of nothing save them. War is even more highly specialized than modern industry in the heads of efficiency experts...
According to the financial statement submitted by F. K. Bullard '20, secretary-treasurer of the Sophomore Class, the 1920 treasury has the largest surplus possessed by sophomore organizations in recent years. A balance of $1,391.89 is maintained for the class finances. One reason for the large total of assets was the successful collection taken last winter, which netted...
...like an account of the Spanish-American War camps, where so many thousands were killed by disease. A repetition of those days seems impossible, but we must see to it that our camps are clean, that men are not sent in herds of six thousand to places where no one is ready for them, as recently occurred at New Rochelle. The nation is willing to give its manhood up to face bullets and shells, but not to be slain by disease which comes from criminal carelessness...
...interest through adoption of our ideals and our citizenship. This trait of blood and breeding has been called upon in the present war; it will be called upon again, many times, and not in vain. We shall not be plagued with regrets over what we might have won, with one more effort. Boston Herald...