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Today, should it become necessary to raise a large body of volunteers, under our present system of national defence, we would stand absolutely on the threshold of a gigantic enterprise for which the tools were but partially sharpened and ready for the work, and there would be an absolute lack of sufficient number of leaders for our companies and battalions of the large force which must be called for in the defence of the country...
Though you have but crossed the threshold, you are so much better prepared to carry on the task of manhood service than are those who have been less fortunate, less inspired, than yourselves; and your preparation will mean, in time, that you will count as greater factors in avoiding war, or lesser sufferers if it should come...
Heretofore, it has not been necessary to mention such things; they have gone without saying. Since, under changed conditions, there have been signs of such a spirit developing, it seems necessary to hint to the members of the Freshman class that they have at last stepped over the azure threshold of childhood, and that they should realize it as soon as possible...
...years. He said that there are enormous social problems that must be solved within the next generation if they are to be solved at all; and they can only be solved through contributions from many different classes of men viewed from many different angles. "We are standing upon the threshold of a new order; of that period in the history of the world when men are ready to cast aside old ideas like old machinery. This is a period of great changes; there is a question mark against absolutely every line of thought and activity. The idea of democracy...
...death of John Moore Morse '07, Harvard has lost one of the most promising of its younger graduates. After a brilliant undergraduate career, he entered business in New York and was on the threshold of a useful and successful life, when he was cut off by an untimely death...