Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Julian L. Coolidge '95, in speaking of the work of the American University of American soldiers established in France, expressed himself as feeling that this scheme of the government to fill in the gaps made in the education of so many young Americans because of the exigencies of the war, fulfilled its purpose, judging from the satisfaction expressed by the students themselves. "Certainly the attempt to make students out of soldiers was more successful than the attempt to make soldiers out of students as exemplified by the S. A. T. C.", he said. Professor Coolidge served in France as liasion...
Whether we are proud of Harvard's war record or not, whether we have contributed to it or not, whether we like Harvard's present military policy or not, whether we approve the first four recommendations of the Committee or not, I hope and believe that I express the thoughts of most Harvard men and most men interested in Harvard in condemning as utterly improper this final recommendation...
Apart from our opinion on the merits of compulsory military training, and quite apart from any peculiar national or international conditions that make it now more or less desirable than before the War, it would be the worst sort of folly for the University to be identified with a movement for universal service. It seems to me obvious that this question is one about which the University has no business to be partisan. For it to "further by its inspiration the establishment of a universal service throughout the nation" would be as inappropriate as for it to oppose the adoption...
...such a fashion should every city, town and village drive home to its representatives the idea that the majority must rule. The objection of many who decry chronological isolation is answered by those communities and industrial organizations which had daylight saving ordinances of their own in pre-war times and suffered not at all from the experience. Let us stand solidly behind Boston and Massachusetts in any action insuring for us those innumerable benefits which we have enjoyed during the past two summers...
...awarded by the President and Fellows of the University to David R. Merrill of Berkeley, California. Mr. Merrill was graduated from the University of California in 1917, and secured the degree of M. S. at the same institution in 1918. He served in the Chemical Warfare Service during the war, first as a private and later as a second lieutenant. He came to Harvard last spring to pursue the graduate study of chemistry and was given the DuPont Fellowship. The award has been repeated this year to enable him to go on with his researches...