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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have chosen you to interpret for us to Harvard University our ideals of American harmony, our fervent adherence to cause of right, which the American of today is endeavoring to infuse into international order, and our boundless admiration for the moral grandeur of the United States, which assures the coming of peace among nations...
...birth are small matters in such a contingency. It is a glorious thing to know that through the awful destruction and havoc which this war is effecting we are at least coming to know, to understand, and to appreciate our brothers of the South and that they are seeing us in another light than that of rank materialists. No shallow sentiment or diplomatic sophistry prompted this letter from the law students of Buenos Aires. It was the expression of opinion of a class of men who think and whose thought is all the more to be trusted because of their...
Governor McCall has done well to communicate to the authorities at Halifax the expression of his keenest sympathy, with the assurance that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will go to the limit in extending to the stricken people every sort of succor or assistance that is open to us. The ties between Nova Scotia and its capital and our State and city are close and warm. The consequences of the disaster, in physical suffering and very likely in hunger, must be instant and terrible. Let us start our help at once. The railway and the sea should bear it even before...
...present. We have been told what Abraham Lincoln would have thought of the war; we have heard what opinion Louis XIV would have held of the initiative and referendum; it has even been suggested how Isaiah would have received Billy Sunday. Strangely, however, no one has ever informed us of Phillips Brooks' words, should he enter Phillips Brooks House. For the Bishop was an inveterate smoker. He purchased a brand of long, black cigars, which were not labeled Colorado Claro, and these he did not use sparingly. But think of the utter chaos which would result from Phillips Brooks lighting...
...most of us who have stayed at home, the burdens of a great war have rested easily. While others are offering life for a cause, the extent of our privations has been the absence of sugar from the breakfast cereal. An opportunity to feel this war, to aid in the alleviation of suffering that it entails should be a welcome one. Such an opportunity is at hand. Today the University is sending its contribution into Nova Scotia to clothe the victims of a disaster that has brought grief to thousands. That contribution must be worthy of the traditions of Harvard...