Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the existence of football as a University enterprise is not compatable with the best interests of the Nation during the present crisis, let us drown our regrets and, after the Kaiser has been securely caged, we will again take up successfully our yearly task of taming the Tiger and the Bulldog...
...student with an adequate knowledge of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, Zoology, or Botany, or with experience in sanitary work, is qualified to take a short intensive training in Sanitary Engineering and Public Health. All men who want to join the United States Army Sanitary Corps should consult Professor G. C. Whipple, by appointment, in the Rotch Building...
...have had previous military training, of whom about twenty-five had experience in the R. O. T. C. of last year and the Harvard Summer Camp. But for these, all the men are new at it, but show every inclination to develop some well trained men, who can take their places in the army when the unsurmountable obstacle of age has been removed...
...older associates trusted him and gave him their best efforts. But the most striking thing about him was the quickness with which he won the affection and respect of the students. Unfortunately much of his time at first had to be spent in the office; he could take little part in the field work until towards the end. And yet he never stood upon the platform of Sanders Theatre to make even a simple announcement without prolonged hand clapping. Few commanding officers have made such a quick, positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent...
...crisis. But we must remember that efficient service in any field can be rendered only after a period, oftentimes reaching into years, of laborious and intensive preparation. For many of us that period is now becoming a matter of weeks; it concerns us all the more, therefore, to take care that all of the work which we do shall be our best and nothing else. The spectacular deeds of the battlefield are indeed an inspiration to equal achievement on our part, but it is also true that but few ever blundered into heroism. To most men it comes...