Word: true
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question thus resolves itself into giving no letter or taking a middle ground and awarding a modified insignia. Ordinarily such a middle course inclines to be a weak one, but in the present instance this does not hold true. The men who have given their time and energy to athletics and who have represented the University to the best of their ability, be it on river or gridiron, diamond or rink, deserve recognition of some sort. This acknowledgement should be of a special kind, to exist only for the duration of the war, and to be superseded by the regular...
...learn from our dead. He showed how the men who have given their lives to their country teach us not only how to die, but also how to live. "The simile of one runner handing on the torch to the next, never letting the flame die out, is ever true," he declared, "and let us remember that the fewer the number remaining, the higher will mount the flame. I can see you young men reaching out with eager hands to take the torch...
...solicited contribution. If such appeals fail to pierce the student's armor of indifference, Harvard's future is a sad one. Everyone has at least something to give. The man who cannot sacrifice for such a cause is no man at all. He lacks the essentials of true national spirit. Today is the last day of the Red Cross campaign and the last opportunity for Harvard undergraduates to do their duty. Wake up to the urgency of the need of Harvard is to maintain the record which it has in the past established...
...temporary residents--who in the emergency of the war are disposed to misuse their opportunities. From their places of safety they are bent on stirring up mischief in Ireland with the obvious purpose of giving aid to the enemies of this country. With them the great mass of the true friends of Ireland in the United States have no alliance or association; to the methods of this element, as loyal Americans, they can never assent...
...many thousand young students for such and such branches of the service, you will be told, you will be called; and on that day I should blame you if you did not go, just as vehemently as I now urge you to stay where you are. If it is true that this war is not only a soldier's war but a people's war, we must have strict organization of all resources of the nation. And just as the commander of a military force is the only master who may dispose of the services and of the lives...