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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...know that in the past the Harvard Regiment and the R. O. T. C. have done admirable work, but I am not competent to speak on what is being done at the present time. As to what boys should do about enlisting I can only say what my own four boys did is what I believe to be the best policy. I am exceedingly proud of the course which they followed and the cause for which they are fighting. "If I had my way, every young man from 19 to 21 years of age would be put into a training...
...schools and colleges is less concentration on the purely materialistic aspects of human knowledge and understanding, more regard for the complete self-development and self-ennoblement of the individual, which can never be accomplished by slighting or ignoring those sources of inspiration that have guided men in the past...
...miserably decayed; the second, through the influence of the industrial revolution, has for the most part given way to either places of work or places of recreation; the third does not now seem to be measuring up to the standards which men have set for it in the past. These institutions, as I have described them, exist all about us; a large part of their product are at present killing one another on the battlefields of Europe. Sociologists may have their "complications and modifications," but the war in which we are now engaged points clearly to but one fact...
Professor Abbott has contributed much during the past two years in the way of making Yale thought articulate; and upon nothing is he more to be congratulated than his definition of the attitude which Yale takes in regard to wartime athletics, a propos of the Severn regatta. To quote in part...
Whether or not the Freshmen will hold a jubilee this year as has been done in several past years is a question which will be settled at the first meeting of the class, to take place in the Smith Halls Common Room this evening at 7 o'clock. President Faxon will preside and short speeches by Dr. A. T. Davison '06 and J. K. Berry '18 will be on the program. The purpose of calling the class together is to give the 1921 Executive Committee some idea of what the sentiment of the members may be in regard...