Word: boys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...West are sending their children for instruction. I shall tell the people of the West, when I go back, that the students' faith in God is torn to shreds here in your colleges. Such institutions, I say, should be blotted out. If I wanted to make sure of a boy becoming an infidel. I should send him to one of these colleges." This sweeping indictment includes all the colleges of New England, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Tufts, Bowdoin and the others. Even Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Wellesley and the other girls' colleges are not specifically exempted from the charge...
...Make a big fire in the fireplace for me," wrote Richard Hall, an American boy in the French Ambulance service, in a letter to his mother in Michigan, Richard, whose father was Professor Arthur Graham Bell, of the University of Michigan, and who was himself a student at Dartmouth, had gone to France to take his part in this service because, as he quaintly and also nobly put it, he "wanted the reassurance of doing his share." It was the 11th of November, and the boy was already thinking about Christmas, although he said that he really did not dare...
...Christmas night, Richard started out on his motor ambulance in the neighborhood of the battlefield. And, as he neared the scene, a shell struck him as he sat on his chauffeur's seat. The ambulance was wrecked. No one heeded. But next day another ambulance driver found the American boy's body buried under the ruins of the vehicle, and the French soldiers paid it such military honors as they could...
...Neuilly, in which she said: "As I write, the clock strikes two, perhaps the very hour when life forsook our child. I am often awake in these early hours and my heart goes to you all in France." Then she gave her own service, and sent her other boy to take Richard's place...
...members of the club will come to Cambridge at noon today and will lunch at the Freshman Dining Halls where each boy will be entertained by an individual Freshman. During the afternoon, under the supervision of W. Willcox, Jr., '17, the boys will visit the various buildings and departments of the University and will finally be presented to President Lowell in the Faculty Room of University Hall. Individual undergraduates will again take care of the boys at dinner in Memorial Hall...