Word: luck
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON wishes them the best of luck in their battles with the Boche and the elements. They have graduated from a new war-time Harvard without feeling any love for the University. We do not blame them for any hard feelings they nurse towards Cambridge and we refuse to tell them that they are now Harvard men. Still as they go they carry with them our admiration and as we in the future climb on a transport we hope to see at the helm one of the men who for many a day has gloomily tramped the board walks...
...guess I told you about having two men hit on my immediate right and one on my left in front of Y--. Nothing like being commissioned on the 13th, joining the 13th engineers, landing on foreign soil on the 13th, etc., for good luck. Incidentally, I went all over the Canadian trench tramways on the 13th, and believe me, it was a warm trip at times...
...hours we sink into lethargic repose until the next call. The days seem all alike--except that we are served 'chocolat' instead of black, sugarless coffee on Sunday mornings--and they slip by, unsung, into the tumbled yesterdays of 'a little while ago.' I was in tremendous luck to be able to 'graft' my way into this section on the eve of its first real action--and once the action got started it seemed self-perpetuating. I have been an 'extra-man'--so my chance to see things has been excellent. 'Seeing' balls one all up, too. Though...
...University will seem a petty school after the trenches of France. We hate to have them leave us for we are temporarily losing some of our best friends, but, on the other hand, we envy them their fortune. So we must say farewell and wish them the best of luck. They are going to represent Harvard on the field of battle, following the footsteps of the Plattsburg vanguards, and we hope to meet them all when our turn comes to join the colors...
...course here takes about two months with decent weather. If you are good at it you can get through in six weeks with luck. Twenty-five flying hours are required; 50 landings; a 90-mile triangle, cross country, with two stops; several petits voyages' to neighboring hangars; an altitude test over 2000 meters for over an hour; it is the regular French 'brevet' course. We start in double control machines and after five or six flying hours are sent to solo work...