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Gorgas reports the plumbing often defective, no base hospitals completed except at Funston, and winter overcoats issued to only a small number of men. The report reads like an account of the Spanish-American War camps, where so many thousands were killed by disease. A repetition of those days seems impossible, but we must see to it that our camps are clean, that men are not sent in herds of six thousand to places where no one is ready for them, as recently occurred at New Rochelle. The nation is willing to give its manhood up to face bullets...
Vice President of the American International Association, Director of the Spanish-American Section of the Library of Harvard University...
About 400 University men were active in the Spanish-American War. As had been the case in 1861, many undergraduates immediately left for the front, in fewer numbers, perhaps, because the need was less. John D. Long '57 was the Secretary of War during the entire period. Of all those who enlisted, 11 lost their lives, six of whom were undergraduates...
...number of veterans of the Civil War and Spanish-American War have expressed their interest in such an opportunity of seeing an actual portrayal of the modern war-methods or their former departments...
...understand the attitude of Porto Rico towards the role that the United States is now playing in the present international struggle, a bit of history will not be out of place. When the Spanish-American war broke out, Porto Ricans looked to this country as their liberator, and a wave of Americanism swept across the country. We tried hard to become Americans in thought as well as in fact. A slight glance at our legislation between 1900 and 1904 will convince anyone of the truth of this statement. We went as far as to give more importance to English than...