Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editor since the autumn of 1913, and is now resigning in order to be able to devote more time to his biographical work. In connection with this work he is now engaged in compiling the biographies of all men from the University who has been killed in the war. As one of a small number of contributing editors, however, Mr. Howe will continue his connection with the Bulletin...
...solution of the perennial problem of 'how to bring about a closer relation between teacher and student.' Throughout his life he had struggled heroically against the galling restrictions imposed by a physical infirmity, and achieved results which would have been impossible for a spirit less gallant. When the great war came, and it was evident that he could not go to fight he manfully stuck to his post at Harvard, devoting all his energies to maintaining the continuity of instruction, and to keeping alive the undergraduate organizations with which he was most closely identified. This was his contribution...
...Oxford and Cambridge were completely wiped out in the very first days of the war," said Phillip Gibbs, the British war correspondent when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter soon after his arrival in Boston yesterday. "When the storm burst we had only our small regular army of about seven divisions known as the "contemptible." Two hundred and fifty students from Cambridge joined this army as despatch riders, not waiting to receive commissions. The service these men rendered was huge. They were the only motorcycle despatch carriers and accomplished wonders in the retreat from Mons, riding straight into the unknown German...
...well past the "shower-bath" stage, but the war has necessarily interfered with the progress of singing at Harvard. Now, however, we may hope to see an interest in the singing of good, spirited and vital music that shall make itself felt at every college function, formal or informal, and so, eventually, at every graduate affair. There is no "college" occasion where singing is inappropriate; at football games, at athletic meets, at smokers, in clubs,--everywhere is singing desirable, not the half-hearted, heavy, rhythm less rumble that we have sometimes heard in the Stadium, but a clean-cut, vigorous...
Before the war Major Homans was a member of the law firm of Hill, Barlow, and Homans of Boston. He has served in the state legislature, and was for three years secretary of the Massachusetts Bar Association...