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...weekly class in naval instruction to be begun next Monday at the Navy Yard on board the Virginia offers an unusual opportunity for men to train themselves. If words mean what they say, then Harvard men are desirous of doing their utmost part in the defence of the country. No greater need, and no greater occasion, may arise. Such training involves slight sacrifice. On the contrary, it will give each man keen and intensely interesting knowledge of that great beast of war, the battleship of the first fleet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEN BEHIND THE GUNS | 2/14/1917 | See Source »

...forget that the individual life is nothing in comparison with the life of the country, and ever bear in mind the words of Bacon that "the chief duties of life are more Important than life itself." There can be no higher duty than to serve the country to the utmost of our ability when the hour of stress and trial is upon...

Author: By Henry CABOT Lodge ., | Title: SENATOR LODGE SENDS MESSAGE OF DUTY TO UNDERGRADUATES. | 2/8/1917 | See Source »

...system of universal military training. In the first place, every student of international relations is well aware that the strengthening of a nation's military establishment incites either nations to do likewise; so that, not only are the resources of all the countries concerned taxed to the utmost, in the vain hope of successfully vying with one another in the up building of armaments, but the very act of increasing a country's military forces necessarily breeds suspicion in the minds of its neighbors, and inevitably results, sooner or later, in an armed clash. Thus Japanese and Australian militarism were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/29/1917 | See Source »

...Boston ingenue" held the stage alone for almost five minutes while she minced about to the melody of a popular tune on a fifteen-dollar Victoria. Perhaps this was like the porter's scene in Macbeth, to give the audience relief from tension. They were wrought up to the utmost of tensity, wondering what Bunker was packing in his suitcase, and needed relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/8/1916 | See Source »

However, in order to win this year it will require not only supreme effort on the part of the eleven men in the game, but the earnest, the utmost and the most audible support from every Harvard man in the stands. The team must be shown that you are behind them. Today is an excellent time to show it. H. H. DADMUN, CAPT. N. E. BURBIDGE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Team Needs Whole-Hearted Support. | 11/22/1916 | See Source »

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