Word: war
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...detailed for duty with the Historical Section of the General Staff of the A. E. F. where he acted as chief until February, 1919, temporarily taking the place of the regular officer in charge. The Historical Section also forms the Operations Section of the Historical Branch of the War Department in Washington, and this Operations Section was the only one to go abroad...
...general outline of the plan for military instruction at Harvard seems excellent," said General John Henry Sherburne '99 when interviewed for the CRIMSON recently. "One of the most serious troubles in the last war was to obtain trained and experienced officers. It is very fitting that Harvard should establish a school to remedy this great deficiency...
...Harvard has for years supported several organizations of the National Guard, and in the last war hundreds of her men went out as commissioned officers from these organizations. If these men could have had the benefit of higher military education in College it would not have been necessary to send them to Plattsburg and Summer Schools...
...Territorial Clubs and Preparatory School Clubs in the University are falling into disuse. They might well serve as agents between present and future undergraduates in pointing out to the latter some of the advantages of going to Harvard. There is at present a natural re-action due to the war which makes us treat most things as inconsequential. The sooner we can take an active, unselfish interest in ordinary worth while matters, the better. A few words to a friend, uncertain about choosing college might be of real help to him and the University...
...which may, one would hope, suppress the possible appearance of the half-dozen volumes of biography which seem destined to appear in defiance of sweet reasonableness. The Book Page is weak; but the Churchman Afield, particularly its notes, would not be despised by Mr. Leacock. The account of the War is in the Transcript's best manner, though it probably shows rather more historical knowledge than the Transcript is wont to display...