Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard-Yale game at the Stadium next Saturday offers us an opportunity. If a collection of money is to be made there, the fund could be put to no nobler use, or devoted to a more helpful and humane purpose, than that of providing support and additional equipment for the field service of the Ambulance Americaine in France...
...young Harvard men do not ask ourselves and our elders these questions, If we are content to have the same type of thought served up to us in our own University daily paper as is provided in any of the commercial press, then we deserve to be turned out by a highly efficient machine as "highly specialized experts" able to destroy the works of civilization, but utterly incapable to achieve either physical, mental or spiritual construction on new and really democratic lines . . . "Where there is no vision, the people perish." LEON SHERMAN PRATT 1Dv. W. HARRIS CROOK...
...heard repeatedly from Harvard men in the last six months that to procure efficiency in peace and war there is great merit in implicit obedience. How is that as an educational doctrine among Harvard men? In the education which we received it was not obedience which was taught to us, but self-control and the development of personal initiative...
...believe our observation of the great war which has been going on for the last sixteen months confirms us in the belief that under freedom for the people--freedom in the school, the college, in business--the greatest efficiency is to be developed...
...those of us who perforce remain in Cambridge to do all in our power to keep alive the fading embers of the sacred fire of our University, that she may welcome back in the days of peace those who left her so readily at the call of duty, and keep ever fresh in the days to come the names of her noble sons whose lives have been self-dedicated to the service of their native land...