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...second floor of the not too frequented building. At other colleges the emblems of victory are preserved in a prominent place. But what we notice most particularly is the condition of the banners and flags which decorate the walls. They resemble ancient battle devices. They are torn and tattered and falling absolutely to pieces. Perhaps it is appropriate that the banner which commemorates Harvard's winning the Intercollegiate Tug-of-War Championship in 1884 should be ripped and torn. But it seems to me that interesting records like these should be better preserved than they are at present. Is there...
...class of 1919 has been torn to pieces by the war; its unity has naturally suffered. However, over half still remains, and it is the duty of this constantly decreasing remainder to give the same strong support to the University's traditions as the entire class did during its Freshman and Sophomore years...
...fashioned, whole-souled devotion. "Nothing can undermine the character of a nation more than emphasis on living," he concluded. "Be willing to devote your lives to the cause. Above all, don't be unmoved, don't be 'fed up' on the war. If your soul is not daily torn apart by this war, it is to your damnation...
...means hot coffee. I think of a typical dugout on the crest of a hard-fought hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English...
...going to have losses in battle; our communities are going to be subjected to the rigid discipline of multiplied personal griefs scattered all through the community, and we are going to search the cause of those back to their foundation, and our feelings are going to be torn and our nerves made raw. There is a place for physicians of public opinion to exercise a curative impulse. The young men who are in our colleges, who go to their homes from our colleges and make up a large part of the direction of public opinion, can exercise a curative influence...