Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That a large majority of the University's athletes of recent years have enlisted their services in some branch of war activity is apparent from figures collected by the University committee on war records. Of all the major and minor sport captains elected from the class of 1917 there is not one who is not now in national service...
...captains graduating last year who are now in the service of the Government include: H. H. Dadmun '17, who registered in the American Ambulance Field Service when the United States declared war, and is at present driving an ambulance in France; G. E. Abbot '17, baseball leader, who was commissioned a first lieutenant at Plattsburg and is now at Camp Devens; J. E. P. Morgan '17, captain of the hockey team for the past two years, who is enrolled in the Naval Reserve; H. B. Cabot, Jr., '17, crew captain, who secured a first lieutenancy at Plattsburg and has already...
This is a great age, perhaps a monstrous age, perhaps a divine age, but surely to be admired, even by the most stupid. Nations go to war for purposes which they but dimly feel, led on by wisdom that is not their own, to an end that they may not see. Principalities and republics are stirred by the desire for revolution, though the result of the revolving is hidden. Surely in this unrest of the nations there is ground and seed for the harvest...
Such a man will surely arise, unless this whole war is to miss its fullest meaning, and the upheaval of the governments be but chaos without form...
...mighty glad I am here, as I consider it a very great privilege to be able to take an active part, even if it is a small part, in the fight for the greatest cause the world has known, next to that of Christianity. This war is like a football game on a huge scale. It takes the very best men to play it and success depends on wonderful team-work and tremendous sacrifices. And there is a tremendous amount at stake...