Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...under consideration. Other important items of business included the election of the University of Pittsburgh to membership in the association, and the decision of the Pittsburgh delegates to send a team to the intercollegiate games. Although the representative from California and Leland Stanford asked that, in consideration of war conditions and the distance of those universities from Philadelphia, the rule providing for the exclusion from membership of colleges which are not represented by a team for two years consecutively be suspended, it was voted that no change in the constitution be made at this time...
...fitting in times like these, toward the end of the first year of our war, to render praise, not only to the men who have gone, but to those institutions of the University which have made our record such a notable one. First and foremost of them all must stand Phillips Brooks House, our great pillar of social service, growing to meet new needs and constantly adding to the many activities of the past...
...little nut which followed our regiment to Barre, nor of the canteen now maintained for the Cambridge sailors. We need not repeat the praise rendered this house of service for its aid in the Y. M. C. A. campaign, in the Halifax disaster, and in many other war concerns. Its record stands for itself, a memorial to Harvard men and the University...
Today, when all our efforts are being directed toward our great cause, we are wont to turn away from the ordinary problems of life, and to forget those things which must be done in times of war as well as of peace. The University, however, burdened as it is by a loss of many men and a diverted interest, has not failed in these duties. We owe a great debt which can only be paid in the earnest and sincere support of an institution which has served the College and community well, and which now contributes to the national life...
...motives which controlled their actions,--ideas which, it must be admitted, they have endeavored to live up to consistently. Briefly, these ideas are that the only hope for proletariat control of government is through international socialism accomplished by world-wide revolution; that capital has become international and that the war against capital must likewise be international; that if the present war continues much longer all of the working people will disappear under the fire of the guns, and hence the one thing needful is peace,--peace obtained in any possible way, peace at any price...