Word: pre
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard, and to discuss other than purely academic interests. Therefore, it is seven times welcome, and if in so new an essay it makes mistakes--as it surely will--seventy times seven to be forgiven. Its editors can well afford to laugh (and incidentally watch their pockets bulge) at pre-adolescent lucubrations in red and yellow. (How pat for anonymity that choice of colors...
Plans are being made to put the clubs back on a pre-war basis for the remainder of the year. In addition to the Yale concert, entertainments have been arranged for April 21, at the Harvard Club of Boston; on April 29, at Norwood, and on May 2, at Fall River. The last two of these concerts will be followed by dances, and will be over-night trips...
...Harvard Mission has been reorganized, and will take up its work on a new basis. This organization has formerly supported many University men in the mission field, but owing to the present needs, it will this year place special emphasis on reconstruction work, while going on with its pre-war duties at the same time...
...colleges have yet taken direct steps toward the organization of military units. They have rather been occupied in getting back to a pre-war basis after the disrupting effects of the S. A. T. C. There is, however, a firm determination that military training shall become a reality, and the conviction created from experience that the University is the proper place to provide the requisite technical training. Hence, the present chaotic ideas upon the system and methods to be employed will, perforce, have to be straightened out before the opening of the colleges next fall. In the meantime...
Even to those who have other fields as their ultimate aim, a year in the Merchant Marine would not be wasted. Many men have found that their adventurous spirit was whetted by war experiences, and are not content to resume the uneventful existence of their pre-war days. For men of this sort, the Merchant Marine, with its voyages and experiences through the seven seas, is the one vehicle by which such restless young Americans can gratify the spirit of pioneering awakened by the world...