Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...early part of the war Magoun left College to drive an ambulance on the French front at Verdun and Champagne. He remained in that service for some time, but returned to College. He stayed here until last February, when he went to England and enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps...
...naval cadets who removed the many boxes of cartridges stored in the building's basement, and the prompt action of the firemen who carried carboys of acid from another room of Dane Hall, are good notes for the record of Harvard in peace as well as in war...
Much dissatisfaction has recently been expressed in American papers at the inefficiency shown by almost every branch of the Government in the preparation for active participation in the war. Every administrative officer has been subjected to public abuse, and many officials have been accused of willfully holding up the great national work. The New York Times, a powerful Democratic organ, has devoted a series of editorials to the argument that the President, despite his great genius for moral and intellectual leadership, has handicapped his administration by appointing "unfit men to places of very great trust and responsibility," and by retaining...
...from being in sympathy with the multitude of gross errors and delays which have been committed in the most important of all business in the present day, namely, preparation for the war; but we think that before too much criticism is launched against President Wilson for lack of judgment in filling his appointive offices we should remember that to secure efficiently we must relinquish the democracy our ancestors so dearly cherished...
...would take great audacity to accuse Harvard University of being unpatriotic. When one considers the number of University men in war service, the activities of undergraduates and the attitude of the Faculty, such an assertion would seem ridiculous. But unfortunately all citizens of the United States do not posses breadth of mind. Witness the recent action of North Dakota and Baltimore in removing the study of German from their school curricula. These same people may now look askance at the list of new courses to be offered by the University this next half-year. As against two French courses stand...