Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...president, Edward Alsted Bacon '20, of Milwaukee, Wis.; vice-president, Edgar Scott '20, of Lansdowne, Pa.; Ibis, Horace Howard Furness Jayne '20, of Wallingford, Pa.; secretary, Edward Cabot Storrow '21, of Readville. The office of vice-president was especially created for Scott in view of his work under the war conditions existing earlier in the year...
...attended the ceremony were representatives of the Harvard Club of New York, about 40 Congressmen, former President William Howard Taft, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, former Justice Charles Evens Hughes, General Peyton C. March, and a delegation of Rough Riders who served under Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. There was no music and no eulogy. The only departure from the ritual was the reciting by the rector of Colonel Roosevelt's favorite hymn: "How Firm a Foundation." During the day Army airplanes hovered over the grounds of the Roosevelt home...
...that this work was carried on in a way creditable to the dignity of the University is evidence that I have believed it to be of real importance. It is not, as I believe, accidental, that, though various American universities at varying periods from the beginning of the War to the entrance of the United States tried to maintain hospital units, Harvard alone has been able to maintain such a service in continuous existence. All the others for varying reasons, have fallen by the wayside. During nearly two years, from its beginning in July, 1915, it was the only outward...
Makes After-War Service Possible...
...trying to make is that this Unit in its more than three years of active and, as I believe, efficient existence, has made the name of Harvard known and trusted; that it has importantly increased the possibilities that the University may be of real service after the War; and that this, rather than its humanitarian or military aspects, has been and should be regarded as its real purpose. Certainly, those of us who have sacrificed not only our time but in all probability our future prospects to the transaction of this work have not done so without the hope that...