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Base Hospital No. 5, Which was made up largely of Harvard Medial School students, has presented to the University the colors carried by the Unit in France, claimed to be the first American flag to reach the other side. Major Henry Lyman '01, the last commander of the Unit, presented the flag to Professor David L. Edsall, Dean of the Medical School, who in turn presented it to President Lowell for the University...
...this year, 22,523 American citizens have been accepted for training on the ships as apprentices, of whom the majority were under 25 years of age. The course of training is two months and graduates are shipped in crews of both coastwise and ocean-going vessels under the American flag...
...gave of their health, of their strength, and of their lives, that freedom might not perish. There are one and a half million American boys in France and Germany. Now that the war is ended it would be as reasonable for them to dishonor the nation by deserting the flag as for the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them. Is it a large thing that we are now asked to lend our money to pay the cost of victory? Is American money less willing than American manhood...
...began by the censorship and by government concealment of news. Never again will it speak with the authority it once had and this is the more regrettable because of the gravity of the new issues confronting all the nations of Europe and of the world. With the red flag flying on more than half the public buildings of Europe, there never was as much need of a free, fearless, and independent press as today...
...duty of every American to safeguard the interests of these United Sates first, last and all the time. Between the two there is a deadlock. Which side a man takes depends on his philosophy of life-the only appeal that can be made for either is a flag flapping appeal. Nor does it seem that Mr. Gallishaw himself is quite immune from that sort of thing. "The feet of young men are making new foot prints in the sands of time" etc.; is that not an appeal to the enthusiasm rather than to the intelligence of the readers? GEORGE CROMPTON...