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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Escadrille. The names of even more successful fighters--Nungesser, Ball, and Bishop--fail to give the thrill that comes with the mention of Lufbery, the soldier of fortune and the incarnation of American dash and spirit. The greatest of the Americans who composed the Lafayette Escadrille, he has been among the greatest aviators in all the armies. Even the French, with their wealth of illustrious names to choose from, have called him "the incomparable pilot." No tribute could mean more than this...
...Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Historical Association, the New England History Teachers' Association, and of the Essex Institute, and a corresponding member of the Institute Genevois. He is the author of several historical text books and studies of theological history, among which are: "Introduction to the Study of the Middle Ages," "Synopsis of the History of Continental Europe," "Medieval Europe," "Desiderius Erasmus," and "Unitarian Thought...
College magazines have, probably even among magazines, the most hectically varied careers known to man. They prosper, they fail, they revive; are alternately feeble, invisible and brilliant, according to the qualities of each rapidly succeeding generation. Of late, the Advocate has been passing through a period of eclipse,--if not total, at any rate partial. Before that, it was in the hands of poets and became a sort of serial anthology. With much work that was of course mediocre, it also printed a good deal of very exceptional verse by such poets as S. Foster Damon, Robert Hillyer, William Norris...
...convenient a means evading and half-heartedly accomplishing tasks which they are called upon to perform. "These are war-times, you know, and present demands make it impossible for me to do this," is the common attitude. The fallacy of lack of time has gained great headway among our student body and has come to permeate the daily experience...
...limited only by the time at his disposal. Granted that men are doing more now than ever before, the fact still remains that a considerable part of each man's day is not utilized. The war demands economies of all kinds and that of time is not the least among them. Very few of us have reached a point where we no longer are able to add to our daily routine. The man who in truth fully occupies his time is a rarity indeed. To beg off from added duties because of the war and its demands is in almost...