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...advantages of contact with men from all parts of the country are innumerable. There is nothing so interesting, nor broadening as the so-called "mixing" with men of varied types and opinions; it is fully half of a man's education. There is no doubt that the comparatively few men who do come here from the West and South gain much by their association with New Englanders; but do the New Englanders with their predominant number gain all that they could if they had more classmates from distant parts? The same holds true of the relations between Southerners and Westerners...
Captain Gregg has returned from service with the Harvard Medical Unit in France, where he came in contact with all types of English, Scotch and Canadian soldiers...
...citation:--"Captain Hamilton Fish, Jr., commander of Co. K, 369th Infantry Regiment, being on furlough; came back to spend his furlough with the regiment, knowing it had been engaged. Has rendered precious services--exposed incessantly to danger--before, during, and after the taking of a village, and in establishing contact between the regiment and his battalion...
...times nearer Europe owing to improved transportation facilities. We have acquired interests in Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines which must be protected. Our commerce, oftentimes carried in foreign-owned ships, penetrates to nearly every corner of the globe. In the growing interdependence of nations and their closer contact with one another, our country has by no means remained isolated; the nations of Europe were not at war three years when the United States was drawn into the conflict. World peace is no longer a provincial concern, its violation affecting only the parties actively engaged in the dispute...
...which Professor Merriman has written. Yet there is one feature of his life at Harvard to which tribute can not be too often made: he was the intimate friend not only of his colleagues in the Faculty, but also of a large part of the undergraduate body. That indefinable contact-a bond which held beyond the walls of the lecture hall-was characteristic of him; many more famous masters of learning have sought it and failed. He was first and always our friend; kind, sympathetic, tolerant, never the teacher on a pedestal but always the helpful advisor. Mingling...