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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Boston Herald, in a review of the early season work of the Yale eleven, says...
Still fresh in the minds of many is the inspiring picture of the Harvard Regiment as it passed in review before Major-General Leonard Wood on Memorial Day last spring. Many were pleasantly surprised at that time to see a proof of the serious spirit of patriotism which actually existed among the members of the University. Some had doubted if the enthusiasm for the drill would last a month, and scoffed at the possibility of establishing regular military drill as part of the curriculum...
...Book of Princeton Verse," edited by Alfred Noyes, Visiting Professor of English at Princeton, has just been issued. Something of the quality of the contents may be gained from the following extract from a review by Katharine Fullerton Gerould...
...personal comfort and private success that they have no time for unselfish service? The regiment's regular ranks and its well-ordered marching told of many hours devoted to drill in the midst of busy weeks in winter and spring. From the day of their enlistment to their final review this morning the men have worked conscientiously to serve not themselves but their country. Has Harvard's tradition of restraint, which makes other colleges wonder sometimes at what they call a Harvard indifference, not only curbed but also broken the university's spirit? The regiment silenced such questions. Its manly...
...right to say that today's review in the Stadium signified more to the honor of Harvard than any of its greatest athletic victories ever did or ever can. It was not the work of eleven men and their substitutes but the feat of a thousand men and their officers. So large a representation could be taken as the measure of Harvard's whole undergraduate body. It made no difference that the crowd of spectators was thousands less than the throng which goes to a football game to gain public applause, they entered to help prepare themselves for an hour...