Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...horsemanship. A great number of guns, 90 horses, 16 non-commissioned officers and 36 privates will be detailed by the Government for each unit of 200 men recruited in the Princeton Unit. The ultimate object is to form a battalion. Major J. E. McMahon, former instructor at West Point and Camp Taylor will be Commandant of the Unit...
...point that I am trying to make is that this Unit in its more than three years of active and, as I believe, efficient existence, has made the name of Harvard known and trusted; that it has importantly increased the possibilities that the University may be of real service after the War; and that this, rather than its humanitarian or military aspects, has been and should be regarded as its real purpose. Certainly, those of us who have sacrificed not only our time but in all probability our future prospects to the transaction of this work have not done...
...because he has some knowledge of what other men have thought for themselves Throughout his life he was a great reader, and what is more a tenacious reader, who liked to break in on other people's specialities with some fresh illumination. He wrote books, many and to the point. In his last years he practiced the art of the journalist, through systematic and incisive articles. Few of the sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary work in many fields. Roosevelt was the living illustration of what used...
...connection with the proposed plan of universal military service there arises the dual question of principle and detail which must be satisfactorily solved before we venture farther into so uncertain a project. Among those pacifists who make it a point to quash every scheme of national defense which savors of compulsion or armament, whether or not such a course be in fact an expedient one, no proposal concerning military service will ever enjoy widespread support. We should remember, however, that so long as the possibility of war in the future exists, no matter how pleasing the prospect or how buoyant...
...returning to College from the Army and Navy are bringing back a point of view new to undergraduate life. It seems pertinent then to ask ourselves what the University has to offer these men, so many of whom have seen action...