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...enumerate the work into which members of 1917 have gone. Sufficient is it that they have gone. The class unity, revived, democratized, and enhanced almost to the sentimental, which always springs up just before men are to make the last parting of four years' association, has received a lasting shock. The class of 1917, more than any class which has preceded it for a half century, will be scattered to the four winds in the fulfillment of that work which lies ready for it to do. We must consider it as trebly unfortunate that this parting week of life...
...down from the post to the hospital until 4.30 with my wounded. I found him perfectly conscious and apparently not suffering. He seemed so strong and cheerful that I did not give up hope, although the doctor said he would die any minute, as the shock to his heart had been too great. Everything possible was done for him, and they allowed me to spend the night with him. He did not suffer at all, and talked rationally about the work of the section, and was much interested in the good news from France that just reached me. He lived...
...shock to most men to learn coldly that Germany's submarine war is a far greater peril than we had supposed, that the famed advance against the western front is recovering slowly by inches what Germany took rapidly by yards, that many good men are dying in order that the red fields of France may be once more free. We are learning that the German morale is not yet broken, that some millions of the finest war-trained troops, armed with all that modern science may give to the soldier, are holding fiercely that French and Belgian land which they...
...warfare. Now, however, drill officers have appeared who have been themselves participants in the battles of France and Flanders. With these officers marching and drilling with us here in the Square, Harvard can no longer consider herself removed from the real conflict. To some this may come as a shock, but to all it will be an inspiration...
When the seismograph is sufficiently sensitive it is possible to tell not only the position of the hostile artillery, but also its calibre--the last requiring a practised eye. It is also possible to distinguish in the tremors recorded by the instrument the difference between shocks produced by the fall of projectiles, and those caused by the recoil of the guns. It is through the shock produced by the fall of the projectile that the calibre of the firing battery may be determined...