Word: parted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mobilized, August 3, 1914, as adjutant to the colonel commanding the 20th Regiment of Field Artillery. He took part in the early fighting in Belgium, the retreat, the battles of the Marne and Aisne, and the first and second battles of Champagne. Before coming to Harvard he was detailed to the British Ministry of Munitions in the department of Ordnance Research. He has been awarded the Croix de Guerre...
...great many students who are not in the R. O. T. C. and are hence deprived of all organized sports. Some form of intercollegiate contests ought therefore to be devised, something which would afford the exercise so many need, and yet would not demand unqualified attention on the part of the participants. We have had this sort of athletics before in the Leiter Cup series. If they could be organized now on a larger scale, they would fill a very big gap in University activities...
...hard to be anti-German when there are such Germans as Professor Francke. He represents the best part of the Teutonic people, with whom, as the President said, we have no quarrel. He represents the splendid history which German art and literature achieved before the deadening influence of militarism fell over it. This is the spirit with which America cannot but sympathize, and it is to free the true Germany as well as to free the rest of the world that the United States have entered the war. Let us not forget this purpose, even in the time of greatest...
Intercollegiate athletics have been abandoned generally, in this part of the country at least, because of the requirements of military training, and as yet there has been little or no attempt to organize a substitute. Undoubtedly the action of the Athletic Association is justified, chiefly on account of lack of time. But there is another argument in favor of it. A great deal of importance is attached to intercollegiate contests; so much that the players devote all their attention and interest to them. At times they become almost professional, with an object of such paramount importance as military preparation...
...Farmers in the West and in the East are willing to do their part, but they report that there is great difficulty in securing help. Thousands have gone to work in the munitions factories. At this time, we should be willing to work on the farm, thinking of it not so much for the wages, but as patriotic service. Every bit of spare ground should be cultivated...