Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Throughout the war, Harvard should continue summer camps for intensive training, open not only to Harvard men but as broadly as possible to all men properly qualified, particularly those too young to attend the Government camps...
...tell what the future will bring, in regard to the relation of academic and military work. Those who can stay to the end of their junior year can graduate if they take the maximum number of courses. This is the logical path open to them. The war has required many changes. It is time that the Harvard undergraduate establish a practice which is so necessary a complement of the demands of the time...
...This war, I hope, is going to end the power of force in the world, but it is not going to end time nor blot out the human race. The future is going to demand leadership as the past has demanded it. Young men who have the opportunity to obtain liberal education should not, through more patriotic feelings and because they are fearful that somebody will allude to them as slackers, drop this training and rush indiscriminately into the army...
...have, since the outbreak of the war, listened to stories published in our newspapers telling of the superiority of one American doughboy to countless numbers of Germans. Yesterday we learned from one of the daily papers that the Americans on the Marne slaughtered one thousand enemy troops and lost but one man. All of which is cheering news, but somewhat ridiculous, and very few educated people can be expected to take much stock in such exaggerated reports...
What is clear, however, is that the American soldier is showing up well. He is inexperienced and new to the game of war, but in spite of all he is "making good." That he is as useful as his French and English allies is liard to believe; they are veterans and he has much to learn. It is encouraging, never the less, to see that the Germans have guessed wrong once more. They laughed at the idea of a powerful English army, they were sure that no large Canadian force would reach their front, and they sneered at the notion...