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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been called upon to bear as heavy a toll of its finest figures as perhaps any academic organization in the country. While the war casualties are still appearing we have the news of the death, first of a distinguished graduate and now of a cherished teacher. Any attempt to express our sorrow or adequately to appreciate their lives must end in failure. Greatness we may attribute to a historical figure. It is not enough to assign to one we knew personally and admired in the intimate relations of our daily lives...
...represent Harvard before the world. The watchword of a progressive institution or country is "opportunity." Here and now we have the opportunity to so shape our lives that they will pay to Mr. Roosevelt, Professor Sabine, and the others the tribute that it is now our burning desire to express...
...then, is the value of this course to be enhanced by introducing compulsory training in "military" English? Is it by reading the literary masterpices in military science and tactics, and patterning our style of writing after theirs that we are to obtain the knowledge that will enable us to express ourselves in clear, coherent, and elegent English? Or are we to believe that America has become so thoroughly infused with the spirit of militarism that the people cannot communicate their thoughts to one another save by the use of the terse and laconic expressions that form the working vocabulary...
...important for the members of 1919 to remember that successful and satisfactory elections depend on their free use of this nominating privilege. Too often in past years dissatisfaction has been expressed with the way in which the elections were conducted by men who never once thought of making use of their rights to express themselves before the election day. During the next two weeks the Seniors will probably dabble in politics but if 1919 lives up to its former standards and endeavors, its criticisms will tend rather towards thoughtful construction than towards thoughtless denunciation...
...true that none of the men will express any open regret at the disbanding of the S. A. T. C.; to rise, eat, work, and go to bed at the call of the bugle was not a pleasant experience for those unaccustomed to such a stringent routine. As an attempt to combine academic with military work, the S. A. T. C. cannot be adjudged a success; the level of scholarship as shown by the records at the Office has visibly declined. But in spite of all these difficulties, real or imagined, let us hope that the days which have been...