Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...clothing collected in this drive will be sent to a number of charitable organizations to be distributed among destitute people. Among these charities are the Associated Charities of Cambridge and Boston, the Red Cross, the Morgan Memorial, the American Memorial Hospital at Rheims, and the Italian War Relief...
Today the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs will hold its annual meeting at Lowell under the auspices of the Harvard Club of that city. This meeting will be the first the Federation has had since the beginning of the war. Several matters of importance to the University will be discussed...
...reached that port. For over two years they have spent their days and nights in foreign waters sweeping the seas of more than fifty thousand mines that the commerce of the world might pass in safety. This was the work that called for perhaps the sheerest courage of the war. Ploughing undramatically through the dangerous, fog-swept North Sea, constantly in danger of being wiped out by the deadly, unseen mine or the cowardly submarine, they made it possible for the capital ships of the Allied navies to keep the Germans bottled up and the sea-lanes open...
...tumult and the shouting of the war have died away. Tales of stark daring fall on ears that have heard hundreds of such tales before. The seamen of the "Suicide Squadron" will not get, and doubtless do not expect, the welcome that greeted those who returned earlier. Yet the world will be eternally, though silently, grateful to those men who, forsaking the paths of safety and even the comparative ease of showing bravery in the heat of battle, have quietly gone about their hazardous task. Theirs, unassuming and unadvertised, is the highest glory...
Until 1916 the records in these sports were almost without a break, but during the war some event in every sport was omitted...