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...their offerings are actually the gilt-edged propositions they represent them to be, why should they come all the way out to Cambridge to offer them to students? If you must gamble with the odds against you, play roulette. But don't make Harvard College a paradise for bucket-shop operations...
college building built in America, and entirely destroyed it, in 1764. Only energetic work by student bucket brigades saved Massachusetts Hall, which began to burn several times. Harvard Hall contained the College Library of 5,000 books, including John Harvard's collection. Of this collection only one volume was saved--"The Christian Warfare Against the Devil, World, and Flesh...
...feel that such laziness is his own business, but when someone does his best to skin drills and thus shirks his 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...
...percentage of American industrial workers who are paid no more than $400 a year, when the living wage is $1,000, would continue the same living death. How can we decently visit such violent wrath upon the Germans, when their wrongs against Americans, are but a drop in the bucket compared with the unrighteous and dishonorable acts perpetrated daily with impunity upon Americans by Americans...
...Stoughton. Men are urged to from other teams and to bring their own gloves, bats and balls. There will also be swimming races and field games. The events will include the 100-fathom dash, putting the 20-pound clams shell, throwing the half-pound lobster, and kicking the bucket (form and distance considered). Special attractions are offered to all ologists including Zoos., Geols., Psychols., Archaeols., and Palaeonts., also to botanists and students of forestry. Members of the Natural History Society will given and exhibition of catching the butterfly...