Word: coldness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will offer a course in military training, requiring not over nine hours a week, for which credit for three hours will be granted. The first third of the year will be devoted to drill, on a six-hour a week basis. During the winter months, when it is too cold for outdoor work, classes of instruction will be held. In the spring, drill will be taken up again and also manoeuvring and war problems...
...before the cold and searching judgment of the future with only our accomplishment to justify us. If the national courage which animates our people in this year, 1917, be slight or lacking, not all the honor of past years, not all their striving, not all their victory, will avail to condone our own failure...
...field kitchen which has recently been presented to the Corps was the gift of Benjamin Joy '05, according to a recent official announcement. Its capacity is great enough to furnish each man in the Regiment with a canteen cup of hot soup, which combined with such cold rations as might be carried in the haversack would compose the mid-day meal of troops during manoeuvres. The gift is a necessary one, and is much appreciated by the Military Office...
...sundering of that former close bond of amity which bound the president of the Army League of the United States, Mr. Joseph Leiter, to his honorary vice-president, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, may strike some patriotic souls with a cold-water dash. Both of them are Harvard men, neither one typical, for Harvard has no type. Mr. Leiter wields a great deal of financial power. Mr. Roosevelt, as is well known, wields a great deal of political power. And finances and politics are important influences in our American life, even in time of war. It is pitiable that two such leaders...
...machine are ordered to abide in Cambridge during the summer. The place of their abiding will be the dormitories. But how changed will be those dormitories from their erstwhile winter and springtime gladness. The alarm will not ring at 10 A. M. But the bugle will blow in the cold dawn. More terrible even than the awakening will be the aftermath. Before even one soldier may imbibe his coffee and beans he will be forced to make his bed with his own martial hands. Do not declaim with Sherman that war is unladylike. This is worse than...