Word: coast
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...stiffness and restraint in the Harvard manner invariably makes an unfavorable impression on a man accustomed to the breeziness of the free-and-easy West, but it can hardly be taken to mean that there is less of real democracy at Cambridge than in the college towns on the Coast. Harvard democracy is accustomed to express itself in a less demonstrative fashion, that is all, and although it lies deeper beneath the surface, its presence cannot be denied...
...last two years Captain Bowen has been stationed at Fort Williams, Portland, Me., with the Coast Artillery. He has in that time had considerable experience in the operation of military training camps; at Plattsburg last summer he served as a quartermaster, and was in charge of the construction of the camp itself...
...excluded. The Black Hand enters into the play and takes a significant role. "The Harbor of Lost Ships," by Louise Whitefield Bray, is a one-act sketch adapted from a short story by Ellen Payne Huling, a former Radcliffe student. The scene is laid on an island off the coast of Labrador. A life constrained by dogmatic religious principles and the fire and brimstone teachings of a narrow-minded parson is depicted by the play. "The Harbor of Lost Ships" is the fanciful creation of a crippled boy whose death is hastened by the terrible doctrines of the minister...
...being made by the Committee of Public Safety of Massachusetts to enlist more men for this work, and the outlying towns are being canvassed for recruits. At Gloucester about 50 volunteers have enlisted and at Cohasset over 35 men, mostly from the working class, have volunteered for the coast patrol...
...Navy Department except during the periods of strained foreign relations or actual war. Each unit will be assigned to a boat for patrol duty in the First Naval District during the summer maneuvers, and in case of war will be immediately ordered to report for duty in defending the coast from submarines...