Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...finals of the National Championship Fencing Tournament, to have been held next Saturday at the B. A. A., have been indefinitely postponed on account of the war...
...University Club Committee makes the following report of its plans and its work up to date. The work of collecting information to be distributed among graduates in pamphlet form has just been completed but the war events of course render it inadvisable to send out any appeal at present...
This window has been given to commemorate those students who died in the Civil War, but the donor's name will be kept secret until the window is finished. The window has been designed by Mrs. Henry Whitman of Boston...
...will be seen immediately on entering the door nearest the College Yard. It has been Mrs. Whitman's aim to make the window in keeping with the memorial feeling of scholar and soldier. She has chosen red as the dominent color of the window because it is to commemorate war, is a rich color such as a north window needs, and stands especially for Harvard...
...State militia, volunteered for the public service, but a number have enlisted as raw recruits. As individuals these are to be commended for their patriotic enthusiasm, but it seems possible that the mass of young college bred men can prove more useful if they are less impetuous. The war has not, as yet, in the eyes of the administration, assumed proportions which present immediate enlistment as the test of patriotism. It rather presents the possibility of the future necessity of enlistment, and is a warning to prepare for such emergency. It the war prove of short duration, such enlistment will...