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...last August and had a delightful time at Neuilly (the American Ambulance Hospital) for about a month. Then I applied for sick leave to England and spent a most interesting ten days across the Channel. It was my first visit to England, so I would have had a pretty splendid time anyway; but as an added attraction it was the open season for Gothas--the moonlight nights at the end of September...
Harvard University has not received a more splendid tribute for its spirit and its labor in the great war than the message from the law students of the University of Buenos Aires published in this morning's CRIMSON. It was not so long ago that we Americans felt it would be difficult for South America and the United States ever to come into close harmony. National and temperamental differences seemed so strong that a unity of purpose on the Western Hemisphere was looked upon as a distant dream. Such differences, however, melt away when a question of duty...
...admire your people greatly. The splendid spirit of the women who have suffered such terrible losses and still keep their lively, friendly ways, the stern determination of the men and the bright, happy little children all appeal strongly to me. I am proud to be among them...
Since the declaration of the war, Harvard has demonstrated its splendid spirit of loyalty to the cause to which our country has devoted itself. Graduates and undergraduates have enlisted in all departments of the service on land and on sea. Now that the call has come to those who have been unable to go, to back up their fellows by means of the splendid work carried on by the War Council of the Y. M. C. A., they have proved themselves ready and have responded to the appeal of John R. Mott to give the fellows in the camps...
...committee, fifty thousand dollars is Harvard's contribution to the Red Triangle War Fund. It is true of all campaigns that more words of inveigling are directed toward the public than terms of praise after the goal has been reached. The present case, however, demands a general recognition of splendid work. The University has answered the call of this Y. M. C. A. fund in a way which has surpassed our fondest hopes. The subscription was not from a few, but from a great majority, so that we may extend a vote of thanks to the entire undergraduate body. Then...