Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Harvard University is justly proud of the part which its graduates and undergraduates have done in war work. It is only natural that active military service should receive the greatest measure of praise, for with it go all dangers and hardships. Yet there are many other fields in which men may serve with great benefit to their nation. A group of University undergraduates has just finished a task, the completion of which deserves most honorable mention. These men gave up their Christmas vacation to go into the woods nearby and gather fuel to relieve the shortage so keenly felt...
...Liberty Loan Committee of New England states that this practice discourages thrift, increases expenditures and deprives the Government of labor and material needed for war purposes...
...again, and intercollegiate contests are resumed, we fail to reduce the expense of coaching and training, to inculcate notions less luxurious, and to foster a better understanding of the relation between athletics and other interests of life, we shall lose one of the opportunities so dearly bought by this war...
...information which this office has in regard to the enrolment of men in the Naval Reserve Force after December 15, is based on Section 1515, subparagraph by the War Department, and is as follows...
...however, explain exactly why the present (it is impossible at the moment to write "recent") cold wave should have sent the mercury down five degrees lower than any previous temperature which has been officially recorded. It is conceivable that the hydrostatic pressure was increased in some way by the war psychology, and the resisting power of the neighboring warmer air decreased, but it would be hard to maintain any such thesis as that. The simple fact is that scientific and dependable records of the weather are a comparatively new thing. They extend back in this country but 44 years...