Word: performance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...United States entered the islands. One can buy land but one cannot buy a people. The United States has no moral right to stay in the islands and rule a people against its will. The acquisition of the archipelago was a "bad bargain." We had a duty, however, to perform. That duty is now performed, and it is time for us to leave the Philippines for Filipinos...
...General Sir Alfred Keough, whose office corresponds to that of surgeon-general in the United States Army. Dr. Cabot, as chief surgeon, will be ranked as a lieutenant-colonel, and the other men will receive ranks as majors, captains, and lieutenants, according to the duties which they are to perform. A regular commission will not be given, however, in order that men need not give up their American citizenship, as would be necessary to receive a commission under the Crown; but relative rank will be given in accordance with the plan pursued in such cases by the British war office...
Rifle practice and Sunday marches, recent additions to the regimental schedule, fill in gaps in the Harvard organization which several publications have overlooked in their favorable comment. The Sunday marches will perform a valuable function if sufficient numbers take part. But the success of the experiment depends directly upon the proportion of the Regiment which will use this opportunity for practical experience...
Members of the Regiment are asked to volunteer to act as ushers at the meeting of the Cambridge branch of the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness, in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. All men who are willing to perform this duty should sign up at Weld 3. Ushers are required to wear their Regimental uniforms...
...outlook is needed to make life really worth while, how much greater is the need in the fields of art? All that music, that literature, painting or sculpture live for is the individual contribution to the beauty or significance of the world, which springs from enthusiasm and conviction. To perform this contribution, the artist must not be thinking of how it will be received. That is the death-knell of inspiration...