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...Washington? No one can now tell when this war will end or what severe trouble may be in store for our nation. Every man in the University owes it as a duty to his country to make ready for some kind of service. He may be too young to enlist; he may not be able to pass the physical test; his home obligations may withhold him from going to the front; but neither age, physical defect nor home ties should prevent him from helping other men to get ready for the front. Every man in the University should go forth...
There are different fields of serviceableness to one's country. Enlist for only one motive,- the desire to serve your country at whatever sacrifice of self. Weigh well comparative duty to family and the comparative utility of the profession or occupation to which you have been accustomed to look for ward...
Thus if any man feels it his duty to enlist now, he is justified, but let his action be free from hasty and selfish impulse, and let him consider as an individual whether he can be most useful now or later...
...Balch '59 died at his home in Jamaica Plain last Friday. After graduation at Harvard he began the study of law, which he broke off to enlist in the army. Owing to lack of health he was obliged to return to the law, and accepted the position of private secretary to Charles Summer. He was admitted to the bar in 1861, and in 1863 entered the office of William Minot. His ability was soon recognized and he became prominent in his profession. After occupying for many years one of Mr. Minot's offices he finally associated himself with Messrs. Charles...
General Albert Ordway, the famous army officer, who died Sunday evening at the Hoffman House, New York, was a student of the Lawrence Scientific School when the Civil War broke out, and left College to enlist. He obtained a colonel's commission at the age of 21, and had a brilliant war record...