Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wins for Harvard the championship of the East, nevertheless it does give her that title over Yale and Princeton. The University acknowledges its debt to the members of the hockey team for establishing such a precedent in the first major sport to get under way after the war...
Clemenceau as been to France what Roosevelt was to America. He has been a physician of prominence, a war-correspondent, a soldier, a teacher in a girl's seminary at Stamford, Connecticut, a duellist, a critic, a playwright and above all a journalist. Like Roosevelt a firm believer in the big stick, he has clubbed his way to the top by the sheer force of his convictions. He roused the enmity of the socialists by the vigor with which he used the military to quell the mining strikes in the Pas de Calais department in 1906. He fired the wrath...
...first of a series of great efforts to convince the people of the United States of the wisdom of his doctrine. Whether or not we agree with the details of the plan we must confess that the motive behind it is of the noblest--the abolition of useless war. Let us hear him first and then judge the advisability of entering the world compact...
...True patriotism is lasting, universal. Lowell's works on this, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, inspire the same feeling that they did half a century ago. What could be more expressive of the emotions of millions of people in the United States today than his famous passage: "The war was ended. I might walk townward without that aching dread of bulletins that had darkened the July sunshine and twice made the scarlet leaves of October seemed stained with blood...
...precepts of their training expressed so eloquently by Lowell in his "Commemoration Ode" were followed again by Harvard men in the World War. They rushed into the service in all parts of the globe, willingly sacrificing themselves for an ideal. And now when peace is here the University is showing her versatility by immediately adjusting herself once more to the ways of peace. Her sons are returning filled with the desire of serving their country vigorously in other fields than that of war. They face the future with the spirit of James Russell Lowell...