Word: welling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...university will offer industrial and vocational courses, as well as graduate and professional courses, to those who show sufficient military and academic merit to make them worthy candidates for admission. The subjects offered will be so fitted to the needs of the men that every individual from the most illiterate to the university trained will be able to profit by the opportunity. And it is expected that fully forty per cent. of the soldiers will avail themselves of the chance offered by the school...
...eight to forty of the men have had previous military training, of whom about twenty-five had experience in the R. O. T. C. of last year and the Harvard Summer Camp. But for these, all the men are new at it, but show every inclination to develop some well trained men, who can take their places in the army when the unsurmountable obstacle of age has been removed...
...posted the telephoned reports, two, three or more times a day. There is a bit of coping above to save, the paper from rain and before it gather the motley crew of Poilus. Nowadays with grin and jest--as if the war had just begun and were going well. But a short time ago it hurt to see the little dogged, glum crews that read the news of back, back-fighting, fighting--losing ground--French ground. Then the war seemed a very ancient interminable thing--but now! Ah, it is young with hope and confidence and faith. Hail, the French...
...apparently purchased many packages of tea in which commissions stuck for they gave away several at the time. Ed McDougall received one at the same time, and Bill Bingham "went up" to Captain--so wherever Harvard is she marches on. Four days later I was back in a well-remembered pays with a new-to-me Section. The men are a splendid bunch--the French staff congenial--and the division is a crack one. Two Chasseur Battalions and two infantry regiments--all but one of the Chasseur groups wear the Medaille Militaire fourrageres, and that group has the Croix...
...campaign to secure contributions for Phillips Brooks House. Although the collection has been fairly successful so far, much remains to be done. In place of the usual social service work, this institution will act as a Y. M. C. A. for the training corps. Its building is not only well equipped with writing and reading rooms, but it is also the best and most convenient place for students to meet and receive their families or friends. Those who camped at Barre in 1917 as well as those who were quartered in Smith Hall barracks last summer remember the generous distribution...