Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With regard to the coming encampment at the University, too, the Headquarters Office has offered several men an opportunity to obtain real war training at Devens during the next two weeks, provided that they will attend the Government Camp in June and will then return to Cambridge as specialty instructors in the R. O. T. C. All volunteers for this work must sign up at Headquarters before noon today...
...view of the number of Harvard teachers who have left the University for immediate war-work, and in prospect of the further reduction next year in the number of students attending Harvard College, especially in the three upper classes, it is reassuring to look over that elaborate bill of fare for 1918-19, the "elective pamphlet." It leads one to exclaim with Ulysses, "Tho' much is taken, much abides." In spite of a blank here and there to be replaced at a later day with a teacher's name, in spite of the recurrences of "Omitted...
...thousands of yesterday have become the billions of today as America enters the second year of her financial support of the war. Large figures no longer attract attention and have become the rule rather than the exception. Yet anyone who attempts a mental picture of a billion dollars or a million men is astounded by their magnitude. We may take pride in the greatness of our resources, but we may wonder at the strain they are now standing...
...there are enough men in college to play I see no reason why football and other sports in some form should not be played during the fall. The summer may bring new and unforeseen obstacles, however, and it is not possible to plan far in advance for sports in war time...
When Yale announced several months ago that the Faculty had made a substantial increase in the number of hours that would be devoted to military training, certain press comments intimated that Yale was thereby doing more towards winning the war than the University. Publicity was given to the increase at Yale, and Harvard was supposed by some to be falling below the Eli standard...