Word: wars
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second of the series of Memorial Society lectures will be given on Wednesday, December 4, by the Hon. William Reed '64. The subject will be "Harvard During the Civil War...
...other speakers who are to follow are the Hon. William Read '42, on "Harvard During the Civil War" and Mr. William Garrett Brown '91, on "Some Distinguished Men and Some Great Occasions in the History of Harvard...
Review of Reviews: "The Last Phase of the Philippine War," by Captain John H. Parker...
...much to give up home, health, even life, in order to carry out one's national ideal, and yet it is the plain, over-mastering duty of the citizen in a free land. It is much for the loser in such a fierce struggle as our civil war, to give up the ideal for which he has paid the last price, and to accept the outcome with a fine magnanimity as our brothers of the South have done. They have recognized that this whole country is theirs as well as ours...
...walls stand tablets to great sons of Harvard, whose memories will ever be green, and much space remains for others who deserve well of their fellows. It may be that you will wish to record in this house the names of our young brothers, who went to the Cuban war and never came back. Perhaps you may establish here, as at Oxford, an arena, where you can thresh out the questions of the day, and learn to state on your feet, your opinions and the reasons for them...