Word: us
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...repeated too often that no demands, however great, made on us left at home can equal the sacrifices that those who have answered the call to the colors, may be asked to make. Therefore, anything we can do to lighten their burden we should feel it a privilege...
...plans for the summer training of the R. O. T. C. assure us a repetition of last year's successful course if not an improvement on it. We have believed that a combination of university corps into an all-college camp would have brought even greater advantages than a more local one, but the contrary decision of the military authorities has provided the best possible basis on which to organize a camp which will be Harvard's in name and fact...
...unnecessary to emphasize our debt to France. For her services to us in 1776 and for her services to us at the Marne and in three long years of war, our obligation can not be wiped out by our entrance into the war. We came in by necessity, for our own rights and the safety of the world. France is still our creditor. We can help pay our debt by rebuilding her stricken districts. In doing this we shall accomplish an end at once much needed and entirely practical...
...fair to do. Any ruling which militates against strict attendance at drills will tend to weaken the R. O. T. C. and the University Ensign School. We welcome Dean Briggs' insistence on the service requirement for eligibility and feel that our teams so constituted will be worthy of representing us against Yale and Princeton...
Such knowledge will not terrify us or make us clamor for early peace. Rather will it make us think, feel the edge of our sword, and go on to finish a task clearly proved necessary. No careless, light hearted American army will now enter battle. It will be a large body of serious, determined men, who will push on to the end. They will not flinch, nor will their spirit weaken because they actually know how hard is the work ahead of them. That American spirit is now meeting its supreme test, but it will take more than rod-driven...