Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shore down. Then we began the work which a vanguard must always do in preparation for that which is to follow. Of course, some of the work didn't have much to do with the rifle and bullet, or the bayonet, but it was and is necessary; at present of vastly greater importance that the above. With the necessity of five men behind the lines for one at the front the adage about the acorn and the oak is reversed to a large extent as regards war. The gigantic preparation that is necessary,--in ways of transportation, cantonements, supplies...
...abroad in our midst. True, it opens with a reprint of "France," by John Macy '99, and for the sake of that "France" we could endure much. If you call a dog the Harvard Advocate, undergraduates will be inclined to love it; but unless the standards of the present Advocate not only improve but suffer a sea-change, even the faithful will fall off from...
Last year more than 100 students were present at the "open house" on Christmas evening. They were entertained by a program containing the usual reading from the Bible, music by a quartet of Glee Club singers and by piano and violins soloists, and sketches by graduate students...
Under the auspices of the Divison of Music, Mr. Ralph Lawton will give a pianoforte racital in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, Music Building, tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. He will present the following program: Organ Toccats and Furgue in D-minor, Bach-Busoni Rondo in G major, Beethoven Sonats in F minor, Brahms Balade(in the form of a theme with variations), Greig "By the Seashore," Smetana La Cathedrale engloutic, Debussy Poissons d'or, Debussy Prelude in A minor, Debussy La Nutt, Glazounow La Campanella, Paganini-Liszt
...then went on to show of what inestimable value to this country a respectable force of regulars would have been at the beginning of the Civil War. and in the first two years of the present European struggle. "If the United States had had three brigades of regulars in 1861 they could have occupied Richmond, New Orleans and Charleston, and stopped the war there. If, in 1915, the United States had had a regular force of half a million, and fairly efficient reserve of twice that number, it is my belief," said Professor Johnston, "That the Lusitania would never have...