Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...people felt that those members of the class of 1918 who were to receive their degrees this year, should be allowed to share in the Senior activities, such as the Picnic, Spread, and Class Day itself, which they had been deprived of in their own class because of the war...
...very short notice to supply a transport leaving more or less suddenly. The reason we require so many more books is that they don't last, for whereas in public libraries a book may pass through the hands of 30 borrowers before it is worn out, in the Library War Service-especially on shipboard,-a volume rarely outlives the handling by five different persons...
...University will read with interest this morning the proposal of Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt, reprinted elsewhere, in regard to the establishment of a Harvard branch of the American Legion--the legion of veterans of the war. We believe that there is a decided need and place for such a Legion, and that it will merit and receive the support of college undergraduates throughout the nation; we can but feel however, that the establishment of a branch at Harvard, or any other university, is neither practical nor desirable...
...essentially democratic and non-partisan. It must not become a second Grand Army of the Republic, interested only in politics and old soldiers' rights. The real aim must be constructive; it must perpetuate a purpose which will grow even after the men who fought in the Great War are dead. We must not allow the great moral principles for which America went into the war, and which have not received their due recognition at the peace conference, to be forgotten. And any nation-wide organization which is to stand for such ideals must include the college men of the country...
...taken at once for its formation and its union with the National Legion. As a result of the recent convention at St. Louis, the plans for the organization of an American Legion of all men who have been in the service of the United States during the World War is well under way, and local branches are being formed in every state. A Massachusetts executive committee has been appointed, and is now completing its organization. It seems to me that a 'Harvard Legion,' of the many members of the University who took part in the war, should be formed...