Word: helped
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...giving the farewell to the School on behalf of the University, President Lowell said: "This is rather a sad day for me. You are the last product of the effort of this University to help the government carry on the war for the last two years. The war has called for great efforts by everybody. Some of my friends have told me that they believe that there will be permanent benefit to the spirit of the country. History, however, shows that every great period of war has been followed by an age of materialism and selfishness. The Civil...
...maintenance of a Naval Reserve. I approve very highly of Secretary Roosevelt's plan of having naval units at various colleges, as the best means of educating more reserve officers, and I sincerely hope that such a unit will be established at Harvard next year. In order to help us get through the period of emergency, the Naval Academy at Annapolis was increased four-fold, and a great number of petty and warrant officers were commissioned. In addition to these regular navy men, many civilians who had had experience on the water were made officers. The men in this latter...
...have an active part in this great contest. Others of you have deeply regretted your inability to go. The Victory Liberty Loan will afford every one an opportunity to become an active participant. Paying for the war is just as important as fighting it, and all of us can help to pay. We would be untrue to the boys who offered their lives if we failed to shoulder our part of the burden of those who stayed at home." CARTER GLASS, Secretary of the Treasury...
Plans are in progress at New Haven for the erection of a new athletic clubhouse which will afford locker and full athletic accommodations for every undergraduate at Yale. The building would help in carrying out the plan of enlisting every student in some branch of sport. So far, the lack of both athletic fields and clubhouse facilities has been the greatest handicap in interesting more men in athletics and physical exercise. The new building would serve as a memorial to the three major sport captains who were killed in the world war John Overton. Albert Sturtevant, and Alexander Wilson...
After reading these reports we cannot help but feel a renewed interest in and admiration for the ever-growing work carried on by the Phillips Brooks House Association. We print the reports today in the hope that as many members of the University as possible will read them. For to read them is to feel as we do. They are a record of the phenomenal progress and well-deserved success of a work assumed unselfishly and thoroughly well done...