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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Your editorial on universal military training does not, I hope, express the general attitude of Harvard on the subject. Some of us here think that the war has not been fought in vain...
Universal military training breeds war by producing large opposing forces. During the war it was necessary but the war is over now. The adoption of universal military training will prove that the war has been morally lost because we fought against militarism in all its forms, incipient or full-grown. The American people must demonstrate to the satisfaction of liberals the world over, that they have not been "conquered by the spirit of the German militarism which they set out to overthrow". Military training should be rejected. SEYMOUR B. QUEL...
...Cross musters its forces for the third year. No armistice has existed for that organization; no formal peace will halt its work overseas. On behalf of the people it has pledged millions of dollars toward rebuilding the devastated regions. Through fifty departments it still protects the war unfortunates of France and Italy. By strengthening the morale of these countries for three years it has incurred their blessing on the Americans. Now that the army has nearly dwindled away, the Red Cross becomes our chief public representative abroad. For this reason, if for no other, we must keep it what...
...Second Shot," Mr. Gavit has painted a vivid war scene, a picture so realistic in its dialogue; so skillfully drawn, as to make the story perhaps the issue's best. Mr. Slingerland's "Fifty Below," except for a few spots of rather stilted conversation, is estimable. Interesting, but at times slightly artificial and overdone, is the third story of the number, Mr. Cutler's highly-colored "A Respectable Girl...
...Walpole was appointed King's Messenger to Russia, where he assisted in putting before the public the aims and objects of the British Empire during the world war. He served in this capacity until 1916, and it was through his experiences there that he gained the material that the later embodied in his novels, "The Dark Forest," and "The Secret City...