Word: boston
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other day Boston streets were banked with throngs of people, while thousands of young men who had lately donned the uniforms of the Army and Navy streamed by like a river. Most of the massed populace could see only the peaked Army hats or the white caps of cadets--many, indeed, nothing but the points of serried bayonets and the mounted officers. We chanced to stand on the Common where the uniformed men could be seen only when they emerged from the multitude along Boylston street as the column swung into Park square. Presently a flag came floating along...
...must be obeyed without demur--had set himself to face terrifle perils overseas and lay down his life if he must--all for that flag! Hamerton was right when he wrote: "The two most powerful mental stimulants--since they overcome the fear of death--are unquestionably religion and patriotism." --Boston Herald...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra will give its eighth and last concert at the University in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock. Jacques Thibaud, a violinist, will be the soloist of the performance...
...enters David, armed with a sling and a few smooth stones from the brook of truth,--the International Free Trade League, 38 St. Botolph street, Boston. Believing that "protection" is iniquity, the principal cause of war, the league is out to destroy it in all parts of the world. Its terms of membership are $1 per year, which includes payment for its quarterly bulletin. The secretary does not wish to hear from tariff-reformers or tariff-deformers, tariff-tinkerers, tariff-for-revenuers, or tariff-tolerators of any kind. If you are a tariff-destroyer, an absolutely free trader, and wish...
...school offering intensive training for employment managers and welfare workers of ship-yards and munitions plants will be opened at the University on April 22 under the supervision of R. W. Kelly, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University will co-operate with the University in giving this instruction, which will be along the same lines as that offered at the University of Rochester at the present time. A third school will be opened at Washington University, Seattle...