Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...glad to have the opportunity to express my approval of the proposed memorial to the men of 1920 who lost their lives in the war. Although in general we should guard against erecting individual monuments, an exception may well be made in this case. In the minds of these men, the call to arms was intimately associated with undergraduate life. Their main interests lay in the activities of the Yard, the river, and the Field; and while they were in service, their thoughts doubtless turned to Harvard almost as often as to their homes. Attachment of this kind, it seems...
Spectators of Saturday's contest were treated to a surprise. Expecting little, they saw a consistently excellent meet, in addition to the establishing of a new two mile record. It speaks well for the athletes returning to college from war service that with so little training they should approach so near the records...
...officials of the Amateur Athletic Union selected over fifty other athletes, who were in the Army during the war, from the colleges and athletic clubs of the country to represent the United States in the contests between the teams of the various allied nations, which will take place at Joinville, near Paris, from June 24 to July 6. A great many prominent athletes who are worthy of entering the meet, could not be chosen because of the rule which prevents members of any form of service other than the army proper from entering...
...war of arms has ceased--the war of ideas continues. The ideas which govern Germany twenty years hence will be the ultimate test of victory...
...United States will have grown to a considerable size within a short time, and efforts are being made throughout the nation to recruit a sufficient number of men to take care of the new program. Retention by the United States of all German ships seized after the declaration of war, will, according to information from Washington, make it certain that this country will be the second maritime power in the world, with Great Britain in first place and Japan in third. When the war began in 1914 American vessels carried only 9.7 per cent of American exports and imports...