Word: performance
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other graduates who preserved in later life the vigorous enthusiasm of youth are noticed at some length in the Book Reviews,--John Fiske and Edward Everett Hale. As figures in our national literature, they are fairly well known to the public at large; these reviews will perform a useful function in enticing readers to the bulky biographies recently issued. Yesterday seems so far away that one is grateful for these accounts of latter-day giants...
Music will be provided during the pictures and between the speeches by several members of the class. R. H. Ware '20 and J. B. Mabon '20 will perform on the piano. C. G. Le Forgee '20 and J. L. Mosle '20 will play accompaniments on the stringed instruments, and H. DeC. Ward '20 will use the drums and traps...
...Records show that the number of Harvard men who have sacrificed their lives is steadily and rapidly growing. We cannot read the University's roll of honor without that intense and personal sorrow which alone can make us fully realize the great duties we will have to perform, and the great sacrifices we shall have to bear...
...during the present crisis, regardless of the fate of their enfranchisement. They always have done their share, they always will. But by declaring itself for suffrage, the administration has removed a feeling of irritation and discontent, and has there-by rendered American women more capable and more willing to perform those duties so essential to the success of our armies abroad. The nation has strengthened itself from within...
...nearly stationary position for long periods of time. They thus are poised for a fixed view of the enemy activities and can communicate movements of troops and other information to the headquarters below them. They also do much of the map-making. The "blimps" are the dirigible balloons, and perform important duties in tracking down the submarines...