Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...American college students have been proposed and adopted -- from the granting of academic degrees to the printing of special groups of names in commencement programs and college catalogues. The Bulletin has been in sympathy with the Harvard authorities in the position they have taken, that academic work is one thing and military service quite another, and that the same recognition is not appropriate to both. Far less formal than any of the usual tokens by which the colleges have expressed, or proposed to express, their appreciation of what their sons have done in the war is a plan of recognition...
...officers, old and young, had received instruction in it. Now we know that there is no mind on earth capable of predicting how much time may be available for completing the training of units after they arrive in France. We see that the one right thing to do on this side of the Atlantic is what General Pershing is doing behind the fighting lines--to wit, making the best possible use of every possible moment. One thing is certain, no officer can ever be too well trained. That he should not be too little trained, the school now opened...
...though the camp does not lead directly to a commission, it will be of the utmost value in the long run. This advantage of being regularly enrolled in the Government service is of great importance. A man who makes good at Plattsburg this summer will have done the best thing towards getting himself favorably considered when the time comes to enter an O. T. C. and will show directly to the real authorities that he is capable of the responsibilities and duties of an officer...
...good thing for Harvard undergraduates, who, because of their age, are not yet liable to draft, to try to find some way of entering the service immediately, and give up their studies, in order to make use of their good will, their physical strength, and their intellectual capacity in some kind of war work...
...motives which have caused and are still causing many of you to look for a place in the service before you are called are entirely worthy and noble. You feel that you are young, full of strength and enthusiasm. You realize that the first thing to do is to win--and you feel it would be extremely satisfactory both to your feelings and to your reason not merely to seize the chance of serving but to make for yourselves a chance of serving...