Word: wars
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...large reception room on the second floor, the King and Queen were addressed by President Lowell (one of the first to favor American intervention in the war as he did immediately after the violation of Belgium's neutrality), surrounded by all the professors in cap and gown. The King answered with a few words in English. He was then given a diploma, and our inspection of the University began under the guidance of the President...
After the curtain-raiser, the audience felt that the Dramatic Club's new policy of producing foreign plays was going to be a success; it was relieved to find that the Club was able to live up to its pre-war standards. But it was not pre pared for what followed. Some of the spectators remembered that, before the war, plays by Holberg and similar authors were given frequently in Germany with great success. And they wondered what the H. D. C. would do with "Erasmus Montanus". How would it maintain the spirit of the 18th century and yet bring...
...first time since the war the Memorial Society of the University will hold tonight their annual dinner at 7 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. W. C. Lane '81, Librarian of Widener Library and President of the Society, will preside at the meeting and speak on the work of the society during the war...
During the last year and a half the chief work of the society has been directed toward correcting and completing the lists of the University Honor Roll, which is now in place in Widener Library. The society is, however, only indirectly concerned with the erection of a permanent war memorial, as a regular committee to handle that phase of the work has been appointed by the Board of Overseers...
That the University intends to live up to its admirable war record in the trying times of reconstruction which we are now passing through was shown by the unhesitating decision to call off the Pasadena game at the request of the fuel administration. The trip would have been of undoubted advantage to the interests of the University, and its cancellation comes as a really great disappointment to all men who are interested in the welfare of Harvard. Yet the Athletic Committee has not hesitated to sacrifice the University for the benefit of the country. Such peace-time service is without...