Word: well
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will be a short military mass meeting in the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at which the military plans for the coming year will be discussed and explained. President Lowell, Lieutenant Morize and other members of the French Mission, as well as certain officers of the R. O. T. C. will be present and will address the meeting. It is anticipated that the entire Freshman class and every remaining member of the three upper classes will attend...
Perhaps the only difference to one who passes by is the mingling of men in uniform with the men in civilian motley. They are back again for a day or a week, meeting the old friends, experiencing the old excitement, knowing the high pleasure of well remembered things. There are those among them who, recalling the past, could wish that the past might never change...
...reduction in the rate of dividend should be made. Accordingly the dividend to be paid to members for the past year will be eight per cent. on all cash purchases and six per cent on credit purchases. These rates of dividend will apply to the Technology branch as well...
...world war much was heard about the failure of American college because of turning out men who would be of little avail in such a struggle. The continuance of the war would only prove how useless colleges were as institutions in time of national peril. It is all very well for us to loll around reading our classics or admiring our art, but when men are out killing one another that institution which is the upholder of the Sabine Farm and its accoutrements is decidedly a back number...
Harvard University has done a great deal in showing the country the worth of "seats of learning." At the declaration of war President Lowell had secured French officers who were trained in a war laboratory. A reserve officers' training corps was established which sent over 600 men well grounded in military elements to secure commissions at government training camps. Many other branches of service likewise drew from this source to increase their number of skilled laborers. Harvard only needed to be told what to teach and did the best that could be done...