Word: bed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...whom we all are proud. For four months we have listened to the bugle calls in sombre Holyoke and seen two hundred men stand eternally at attention in front of Widener. We have cheerfully journeyed to Boston to the sound of their "taps" and gone to bed as "reveille" was blown. As we left Cambridge for vacations we saw these cadets trudge by and as we came back they were still trudging. They seemed automatons endlessly marching from class to drill and back again; and, watching them we have wondered how they lived through a Cambridge winter with special tortures...
...military duty, he becomes a liability to the nation. This Corps is a preparatory school for national service and everything we learn here is a drop in the bucket we must fill before we can become officers. There have been times when the thermometer was around zero and bed seemed more attractive than Soldiers Field; we have of weakness, but the systematic skipping is the symptom of a D or an F man. A habit of this kind grows, and when such men get their chance to become officers they will not only know less than their companions in arms...
Twenty-four hours after the arrival of the first relief train the Red Cross Unit, under Dr. W. E. Ladd '02, reached Halifax. Among the Physicians were 24 graduates of the University Medical School. They carried with them on a special train an entire equipment for a 500-bed hospital, in charge of S. H. Wolcott '03, assisted by G. H. Watson '98, Elton Clark '96 and L. Howland...
...late. Many of the reasons for staying up are already gone, and those few "parties" not yet adapted to the new order of things soon will be. Individually, it depends much on will power, and men able to get up for early drill are able to go to bed earlier...
...food has been the same; the Liberty Bond he bought came out of a special allowance from home: and the "parties" he has gone on have been as big and vigorous as ever. He has had the comforts that men in service consider luxuries. He has had a good bed, plenty of tobacco and shower baths. The Harvard undergraduate has gone to bed every night knowing that he would probably get up safe in the morning. He has not worried about life. He has not take any risk. And, Yet he doesn't want to get up an hour earlier...