Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gentlemen have had the benefit of a military training. You have learned the need of self-sacrifice and co-operation. If we are to avert the danger of materialism, it will be due to your efforts. You men are to meet the greatest need and the greatest opportunity. It can be met only by a spirit of co-operation...
...right when we extend them the privileges of our democracy to ask that they become in return true and loyal Americans. We are not willing to make the United States a hot-house for all the seeds of foreign discontent, as it has occasionally seemed in danger of becoming...
...valid objection to any two of these institutions playing each other in the first game of the season. There would be schedule difficulties, of course, due to the fact that the season is short and that teams cannot travel back and forth without limit. There would be no danger to two big teams playing early in the season because the development of the teams would be equal, inasmuch as practice starts about the same time everywhere. The details of the plan are too complex to be settled by one person. Particulars reference is made to football because the play...
...auditorium, on the other hand, could be made a permanent monument. It could be constructed in brick, and designed, like the Freshman dormitories, to harmonize with the traditional Harvard buildings. I believe there would be little danger, at the present day, of creating an architectural monstrosity like Memorial Hall and Sanders Theatre and a very good chance of obtaining something of the simple dignity and delightfulness of detail of the Freshman buildings
...recently received his third citation. He enlisted February, 1917, as an ambulance driver in the French Army and has served continuously since then. Early in 1918 he was first cited and received the Croix de Guerre. Later he received a citation with the palm for "showing utter disregard of danger during an attack while keeping up communication between advanced posts despite extreme barrage fire, during which his ambulance was struck by numerous fragments of shell". His last citation, word of which has just been received, was for "particularly distinguishing himself under fire during the crossing of the Aisne...