Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...There is need of more than physical service for our Commonwealth in time of disorder. Harvard will lead the way, as she has many times in the past, and mould a public opinion that will make impossible a recurrence of riot and anarchy in this state...
Australian Commonwealth...
...body of men who have attempted to destroy it would be to flout the sovereignty of the law the people have made." This keynote sentence of the latest proclamation of Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts sums up in itself the feeling of unprejudiced and patriotic citizens of the Commonwealth. The police who deserted their posts are as reprehensible as the soldiers who in time of war deserted theirs. The former should never have been entrusted with the public safety. The people of Massachusetts will see to it that they are not returned to office...
...Science and Tactics arrived in the Yard yesterday morning. It was put into firing position by the men of the regular army detachment on duty at Harvard and now rests "in battery" in front of the Widener Library. This rifle has been on hand for some time at the Commonwealth Armory, but was only recently ordered to the University. The motive power is furnished by one of the five-ton tractors that will be used by the Department in the instruction in Motor Traction to be given during the latter half of the first year's work in Military Science...
...needs of the service require your entire attention, you will, of course, disregard, for the present, all your obligations to Harvard, except the supreme obligation of representing her worthily in this crisis." This statement issued by President Lowell to Harvard students, now in the service of the Commonwealth, typifies ideals for which Harvard University stands,-devotion to the government, upholding its power abroad and at home. President Lowell is not bound by a false sense of values. If need be registration and the listing of studies can be delayed; duty to the state comes first...