Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seen Boche--wounded as well as whole prisoners, just as they are brought up from the trenches. One I can't forget was a fragile kid, clammy white, and with eyes gaping in terror. He was so young, so frightened, and so hungrily sick--looking. How could one transfigure him into the ferocious Teuton of most accounts...
...were decorated with the Croix de Guerre. As a result today has been a fete day, with feasting, songs, wines, and speeches. Now we recuperate. There is talk of work again, and lots of it, in about ten days. There are American soldiers within 20 kilometres;--a young lieutenant visited us yesterday and dined with us today. It seems hard to realize that all about us here are Americans, preparing to go down and face the thunder and flame that we have heard all around and over...
...brief announcement from General Pershing of the death of Lieutenant William Halsall Cheney brings with it a new realization of the sacrifice that America has already made for the peace of the world. There is a daily lengthening list of the best and strongest of our young men who have given their lives. Of these is William Cheney. At the declaration of war he enlisted immediately in the Aviation Service, for which he had begun his preparation while a boy at St. Mark's School, a year before the war began. Though only a Freshman in Harvard College, and below...
...these days, when so many gifted young men, who would normally be adding to the interest of our Cambridge life, are giving their time elsewhere to immediately practical matters of war, college papers as good as those of two or three years ago are not to be expected. But need the falling-off be so great as it is in the last Advocate? It seems to me the weakest Advocate that I have been teaching here at Harvard. Not only has it an unusual number of technical errors and of lapses in artistic taste, but its substance is thin...
...effect of the war is certain to be of interest to all alumni of the Institute of Technology and to young men who are willing to do an extra amount of work in order to get through their course the sooner. In brief, the demand for technical men is so great that the Institute is planning not only to run all summer for the upper classes, but to take in a brand new freshman class in February made up of "picked men, gluttons for punishment," as one of the officials puts it, who, by October, will have completed their regular...