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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best way to see and understand the state is to have an interest in its social problems. To cultivate a spirit of fraternity is the only way; not pity or the kind of fraternity that makes a man so sensitive that he can't bear to ride in a street car because there are women standing in it, but fraternity such as exists between farmers when they get together for a barn raising. Every contact with the average man is a way of teaching democracy...
...reduced to 19 years. This will enable many men who have failed to be accepted to make their applications again to enter this field. The army air service needs "athletes who are quick-witted, punctual and reliable. Intelligent men accustomed to making quick decisions are highly desirable. Men who ride well, can sail a fast boat, or handle a motorcycle usually make good air pilots...
...will leave for some training camp outside of Cambridge, where they will go into intensive training. As two-thirds of the men in the Signal Corps of the army are mounted, men intending to enlist in the Reserve Corps will have an added advantage if they are able to ride a horse or drive an automobile...
...want you men at Harvard to feel that we are going because we are white men. It is our duty as humans to help care for the wounded and dying over there; we are not going on any international joy ride. Those of us who have been among the people of the countries at war know that Harvard has done more than any other American university to help relieve the suffering in this war, and we must maintain that record...
...rates of taxis are raised. He who cannot appropriate the family Ford will borrow his room-mate's motorcycle, and come tearing down Quincy street like a modern Lochinvar bringing his fair one to the revel instead of rushing her away to lands unknown. But whether they ride on gallant steeds or whether they ride on gallant steeds or whether they walk, not one member of the class faithful to the goddess of music and light will be missing when the orchestra starts on the first one-step...