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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...links in national defence in which the United States is most deficient relative to the other belligerents in the world war," said Mr. Cabot, "are aerial defence and field artillery...
...These days are not days for talk," said Dean Yeomans. "The Faculty has by unanimous consent and with the utmost confidence in you, made every concession to enable you to enter and serve in the cause of the nation. What difference does it make if the Faculty has done this if you do not stand by the Government. We have been criticized for going too far, for giving the students an opportunity to conceal 'slacking' and demoralization. The country is watching how you are standing up, and is asking questions. 'Can you submit to subordination, discipline, and self-control...
President Lowell, who spoke after Dean Yeomans, laid stress upon the need of team-play, and the development of morale. "This morale of the army," he said, "depends upon the character of its officers. And character cannot be developed in a moment. It comes through a life of right thinking and right doing, through the exercise of patience and self-control. To accomplish this end, all training is vital. Without training there can be no officers, and the army will be an unready mob to be slaughtered like sheep...
...meeting of the officers and directors of the Alumni Association on Monday a resolution approving President Wilson's course and pledging the services of the association to the Government, to be sent to the President and the Cabinet, was drawn up. The resolution said in part that "the officers and directors of the Harvard Alumni Association, in meeting assembled, this 9th day of April, 1917, hereby declare their unqualified approval of the position taken by the Government of the United States in declaring that a state of war exists with the German Empire...
...thing can be said of it together: it contains one of the most decorative groups of ladies I have ever seen in one production. One after one, we watch them immolated on the alter of that very uninteresting young man, Arthur Pendennis, played in a restrained fashion by Mr. Walter Kingsford, -- the beautiful young mother, the lovely giantess in the prologue, the exquisite little Cockney laundress in the first...