Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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America is in a singularly fitting mood to observe the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. The great principles of progressive civilization, which he firmly upheld during the dark days of the Civil War, are strikingly analagous to those which this nation has maintained in the war just brought to a successful conclusion. When Death cut short the full but unfinished career of Lincoln, thereby bringing loss equally to friend and foe, his plans for national reconstruction were based upon the lasting principles of "malice toward none, charity to all, firmness in the right...
...Hawkins '20, chairman of the Campaign Committee, called together the fifty men composing the three teams who have been appointed to make the collection and gave them instructions regarding their assignments. The funds derived from the collection which was made last fall have been largely used for financing the war work of the Association during the first third of the college year...
...customary, the Association assumed the responsibility for the United War Work Campaign at Harvard and collections were made from the students amounting to $16,523.15 and from the Faculty $23,307.25, making a total of $39,830.39 for the work of the United Welfare activities in the Army and Navy. Also the Red Cross Membership Campaign was successfully managed by the Association and over 400 men were enrolled as members of the Red Cross. Through the efforts of the Association the men in the University responded to a call for clothing for the benefit of the people in Belgium...
...most respects the month of January has been similar to the first month of a college year. All of the constituent societies of the Association have been reorganized and are now carrying on an active work in the University. The extensive war work which was done by the Association was a great financial burden. The second beginning of a college year has also occasioned a double expense, which must be met by funds which are raised in the collection conducted this week. Men who contributed last fall will not be solicited again unless they desire to contribute, but every...
...Olmstead will report. In addition D. Leighton '19 who rowed at 7 in his Freshman boat and stroked the third University crew in 1917, and N. Brazer '18 who was at bow in the 1918 Freshman, crew and stroked the second University boat in 1917 until the declaration of war, will row this season...