Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard men engaged in the war. It is not surprising that the graduate schools have suffered the greatest decrease in attendance, since this group of students is composed entirely of men in the draft age, but a total decrease of 36 per cent. in the College is real proof of how the undergraduate is answering his country's call. The Senior, Junior, and Sophomore classes with their respective losses of 50, 44, and 30 per cent. reflects nothing but credit on the spirit of willingness to serve which was manifested in the University last year...
...University--one for army and the other for naval service. It is safe to expect that all students senrolled in College this year will take advantage of these courses to make themselves ready to defend their nation, if such a thing be necessary. The nation no longer needs proof of the value of such courses. It only wants proof of the character of the individuals to whom these opportunities are offered...
...Eastern city papers have taken second place in the nation's war plans to the demand for men, and pretty words have lost, like the problematical salt, their savor, the West and the Middle West are citing their larger contributions in men to our fighting forces as proof of their true and actual patriotism...
...guests of Marshal Joffre and the French Commission. France signally paid a tribute to the great regard in which it holds America when it sent Marshal Joffre here as an ambassador to consult concerning the common warfare against the single enemy. That one act would have served as strong proof to us of our spiritual relation with the great republic of Europe, whose liberties we have long come to regard as unalterably bound...
...said: "American Section No. 5 (Norton-Harjes) has made possible during a period of 11 days of fighting, March 8 to 19, with a perfect contempt of danger the removal of wounded in a zone heavily swept by the enemy's artillery fire. Furthermore, the whole staff has shown proof of remarkable devotion and endurance by giving the maximum service of the unit, and by working an average of 19 hours...