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...student. The latter, prompted either by Greek-letter or pecuniary motives, seldom by others, swallows what is profered to him with no questions. Needless to say, such food is ill digested, if at all. At examination time, the student proceeds to spew forth,--there is no better word,--on the examination book the material which he has periodically accumulated. And so it goes on,--this relentless pursuit after courses and credits, equivalent almost to dollars and cents; it goes on producing men who are some day to lead nations and peoples in the way they think best...
Lastly, there is in and around the Yard a fair number of men with whom, in class or out, I have had some personal contact. Most if not all of these men I count as friends. They will probably have heard me mention, the word "truth"; and, in the course of a half-year, two or three other words. They will have observed, I hope, or if not my work here has been a failure, a certain attitude towards the universe and towards life--a fairly definite attitude. I desire these men, at least, to do what in them lies...
...these gentlemen I would commend one further word--'ARETE--which in its several and interrelated meanings will quite repay a voyage to the dictionary. EDWIN B. HOLT
...Word has been received from France of the death in action on the Western Front of three more members of the University and of the capture by the Germans of a fourth. A fifth has recently died of pneumonia at Camp Meade. This is the largest single casualty list of Harvard men that has yet appeared...
...Word has also been received that Lieutenant H. B. Willis '12, a member of the Lafayette Escadrille, is a prisoner in Germany, being captured at Verdun in August, 1917. He went to France as a member of an American ambulance unit, in which capacity he received the Croix de Guerre. He later entered the French air service as a member of the Lafayette Escadrille...