Word: readings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...every college there should be special patriotic exercises, at which messages from students and alumni in the nation's service may be read, instruction as to how every college student can do his part to win the war can be given and a pledge of allegiance to the flag and to the cause of the war repeated by all. The colleges of America have responded nobly to the call to arms. On April 6th the faculties and students should let their brothers in the field know that they are with them in spirit and in effort. WILLIAM MATHER LEWIS...
...which are undeniably good, aided by German intrigue, steadily won the Russian workmen and soldiers. Soon they will learn their mistake. Trotsky will pass from the stage and his book will likewise pass, for it has neither literary, historical or inspirational value. Only for one reason is it worth reading, to find out what international socialists are thinking about the war. This, however, is no unimportant matter, because the contest of the proletariat against capitalism is world-wide. Whoever with radical sympathy reads the book with its destructive tone should also read the constructive political platform of the British Labor...
...have been constantly shocked the last few weeks by the frequent announcements of deaths at our aviation camps. Every day, it seems, we have read of some fatal accident. To many it has appeared that there must be something wrong; that the instruction is not sufficient, or that the planes are not properly built. There is, however, no good reason to believe that cadet aviators have been needlessly sacrificed. Until the last month the number of accidents has not been striking. The present increases can be explained naturally...
There must still be undergraduates who not only read but think, and express their thoughts in simple, clear and forceful language. It cannot be that all the men who think have gone to the war, or, going, are treasuring their thoughts for slim posthumous volumes of the now familiar type. If things worth printing are still written in Cambridge, the Advocate editors still fail, after all the scolding they have been given of late, to lay eager hands upon the desirable manuscripts. With the Monthly eliminated, the Advocate ought to be able to get all of the best that Harvard...
...members of Military Science 1 must thus attend one regular section meeting, two lectures and one two-hour topography section a week. Each man is expected to bring to the first regular section meeting the Manual of Commanders of Infantry Platoons, in which he will be expected to have read Chapter 1 in Part 1, and also the I. D. R., in which he will be expected to have read the School of the Battalion combat principles...