Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University done its academic regalia and its military garb in honor of Marshal Joffre of France. Harvard has been led by remarkable men, it has nurtured remarkable men, it has entertained remarkable men. But never before has it had to do with a man who did a more remarkable thing than drive back the German battering-ram of armies...
...This system does not produce as good specialists' as yours does, but it does produce a more cultivated man. An individual, after he has been educated in South America, has an extraordinary broad and liberal education. His interests have been cultivated so that he is not centered on one thing, but on many...
...only Boston paper which would conceivably do such a thing has darkly insinuated that preference was given in the choice to Harvard men or other men with social prestige. It voices the woes of those hundreds of unsuccessful applicants who received their yellow slip, but got no further. The inference is that University, and therefore presumably mediocre or incompetent, men were chosen ahead of those sturdy and honest sons of Boston who were more eminently fitted to be officers...
...general thing it may be said that, while some good men failed to be admitted to the camp, it was because preference was given to better...
Germany will pay, this year, or the next, or the next, more fearfully with each year, for the sinking of that great ship. For that sinking, and for the thing she did to Belgium...