Word: takings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...plans for the mobilization of citizen forces are promulgated. To leave now is in every way Inadvisable and can serve no useful purpose. No university or college I know of is putting in more hours than Harvard in purely military work, and the students cannot do better than take advantage of the opportunities you are now offering them to prepare for service. LEONARD WOOD...
...increased trade or for the slaughter of little governments or for the conquest of lands beyond the seas. Our desires are clean of the thought of gain. The hope of a peace based upon national tolerance has led us to take up arms against that government which wills no peace and comprehends no tolerance. Is there now one statesman so unwise as to say we lack ideals, that our only thought is of gain while the whole world bleeds...
...Committee, and secretary of the Boston Central Labor Union, will speak on "What the College Man Owes the Community." The undergraduate viewpoint on social service will be presented by two men who are doing active work in this field, E. P. Stone 3M and Roger Pierce '19. Stone will take for his subject "What Social Service Does for the Student," and Pierce will tell "The Experiences of a Novice in Social Service work...
Plans for mobilizing the fleet on a war basis, establishing a coast patrol and protecting commerce were compiled February 28, but responsible authorities have stated that it will take six months to put the plans in operation. At that time there were 22 battleships and 75 other warships out of commission, without crews or ammunition and since many have not had steam up for six months they will need extensive repairs, 60 days being necessary to put them in commission, and four months to make then fit for fighting...
...declaration of war. But although all formal meets with other colleges will be abandoned as soon as war is declared, informal and intramural competitions will be encouraged so long as such meets will not interfere with military preparation. This means that the University will not, in case of war, take part in the Pennsylvania Relay Carnival scheduled for the latter part of this month, and that there will be no dual meets with Cornell or Yale...