Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Catastrophe is the catch word in Russia at the present time," said Dr. R. H. Lord '06, at the meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club in Phillips Brooks House last evening, as he was describing the impressions he gained of the Russian situation during his stay there last summer. "The country was on the very verge of political ruin and economic collapse. The army wouldn't fight, the workmen wouldn't work, and the government couldn't govern. The crisis was caused by four general conditions: the antagonism between the socialist parties and the bourgeoisie; the total paralysis of the government...
...Secretary's praise of our French leaders is well deserved. We join with him in their praise for we realize, even more than he, that the present excellent standing of the Corps is due to their training...
...Harvard Regiment welcomed this morning its opportunity to present arms to the Secretary of War. Organization and reorganization this corps has undergone, each time that a way has partly opened for those who were its members to enter the nation's regular services. Appearing first in the winter of 1915 as the spontaneous full-sweeping effort of Harvard undergraduates to get what training they could at a time when official opportunities for military instruction were at a minimum, the regiment at Cambridge early became a rallying point for the spirit of national service in colleges throughout the East. Improving...
Several thousand soldiers and sailors will be in the Stadium, and will march in review before the general officers who will be present. The east stands will be reserved for the Army; the west, for the Navy. The advance sale of tickets has so far greatly exceeded the expectations of the carnival management. Tickets at $2 and $1 can now be obtained...
...make this review a success means concentrated effort on everyone's part; it means a full attendance with each man clad in complete uniform. Up to the present this has been impossible. Today we must all be in the uniform prescribed...