Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seems to me that the greatest boon the war has already given to us in America is a realization that our men must all be physically fit. I cannot look back at the record made at Harvard and at Yale, with both of which institutions I am familiar, being a graduate of one and officially connected with the other, without feeling that for 25 years our athletic training has been on the wrong track. But I am glad to say that we are seeing the light and that we are coming around...
...everybody into the game,' that's our slogan now, and it should have been so for years back. It has taken the war to make us see things right. When I look back and think of the fine specimens of physical manhood who have gone across the seas to fight out battles my heart swells with pride, but when I think of those other men, the great majority, in fact, who were not such fine specimens I do not feel so glad...
Once more the cry of "Happy New Year" is heard throughout the land, but its meaning is different than in other years. This is our first war New Year and the happiness we wish our friends is not a personal happiness. We cannot expect the coming year to be one filled with pleasure and merriment, for war means death and no matter how successfully we battle the casualty lists are bound to grow as we take over an ever-increasing part of the Western Front. Yet the happiness which can only be attained through much suffering, for the words happiness...
Captain R. G. Fuller, Regimental Adjutant, went to Washington yesterday to take up a position in the Intercollegiate Intelligence Bureau. This bureau supplies all departments of the Government with college men who are especially fitted for certain branches of Government work. After the war it will also provide occupations for men leaving the Army. His successor as adjutant has not been named...
...that leads to commissions and France, and many of them may not have a chance to return here before going "over there." This is their Commencement Day; we still have to await our turn. They are going away from Harvard not to come back until the end of the war. Most of them will not re-enter college, for the University will seem a petty school after the trenches of France. We hate to have them leave us for we are temporarily losing some of our best friends, but, on the other hand, we envy them their fortune...