Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These men will have no tangible immortality in Harvard's traditions. Their names will no more be inscribed on records of Harvard's fame than will the names of those three dead Harvard graduates who gave their lives to the German cause in the Great War. Sometimes, as in this case, with the proposed building of a new memorial chapel to the Harvard dead, the question becomes embarrassing. But far oftener, the names of these infamous graduates are suffered to remain in the dust of newspaper morgues, known to few and acclaimed by none, while their spirit moves on, unchecked...
...speaker was saying: "War lessons should make us distrustful of too great an extension of the policy ... of educating and using career men for diplomacy. For the routine diplomatic work in peace time it may be well enough, but the psychology engendered by a peacetime career in diplomacy is often fatal to diplomatic emergencies. Career men, capable of a career, can be and now are being used in our diplomacy, but care must be taken lest the development of a right of seniority in promotion . . . does not have its dire result on the future of American diplomacy...
Next .day, he went to church with his mother and President and Mrs. Coolidge, placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, visited disabled War veterans at the Walter Reed hospital, made plans for flying to New York early the following morning...
...Kelly, 19, aggressive and redhaired, ministered to her husband from the base of the flagpole by a system of hoisting cords. She recalled to newsgatherers that he won the nickname "Shipwreck" after surviving the Titanic disaster (1912), then entered the U. S. Navy, and, after the War, became a steeplejack, human fly, airplane stunt performer and "marathon rooster...
Donations for the Harvard War Memorial Chapel up to June 13 have reached the sum of $622,502.92. This amount was made up from 1,496 subscriptions from members of the various classes, going back as early as 1860 from a member of which class a subscription of $200 has been received...