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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After graduating, Mr. Wendell continued to take a keen interest in athletics, not only as an official at the big track meets but on various athletic committees. In particular, he was chairman of the committees which arranged the international games between Cambridge and Oxford on one side, and Yale and Harvard on the other in 1899, 1901, and 1904, and he was a member of the Olympia committee...
...face to face with a great crisis. Forces are stirring our civilization to its foundations. Success in meeting this crisis depends upon our success in mobilizing the brains of the nation. We cannot longer take refuge behind such terms as 'charity' or 'correction.' We must go to the root of the trouble, and organize society so that a large part of our time and energy will not be wasted in making compensation for sins of omission. Even before the present crisis there were many serious problems to be facade; startling increase in insanity, the commission of crimes, and the rapid...
...four lectures; Professor Lord and Dr. Klein will treat the Russian and South American connection; and Professor A. B. Hart, with Professor MacDonald, of Brown University, and others, will consider the more strictly national aspect. A fifth quiz-hour will be added for those who wish to take the course for credit; and a feature will be made of a large collection of books relating to the war, to be assembled in the Widener Library, with classified lists and suggestions for reading and study...
...construction of storage plants, indexing and shipping goods, out-of-door storage, and special current problems. A large portion of each day will be spent in field work. There are daily meetings from 8 to 10 o'clock in the morning after which the classes will take up the study in the field. A fee of $10 is being charged for this course...
Beyond this war lies peace, when those of Harvard-sons who have passed through the struggle will take up with new hope the work of construction for which they have been trained. In that later time they will gain the fullest rewards of their training; not in this barbaric time, when the most martial nation has exalted its heroes to be almost gods...