Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crowd surpassing even the greatest pre-Yale football mass meeting turned out in the Living Room of the Union last evening in view of the prospects of war; and there heard "the hose of common sense" turned on the present situation. Major Higginson's text was "Keep your shirt on," and the trend of Dean Briggs' and President Lowell's speeches was the same, with Dean Briggs adding that there was no danger in waiting, because shirts could be torn off in a great hurry, when necessity demanded it. In addition to the speakers, Bishop William Lawrence...
...patriotism may only be an artificial excitement and a bubbling over of youth's strong and ever present love of adventure for such sentiment, Dean Briggs quoted as a remedy Mr. Gilbert's lines in "Iolanthe": "On fire that glows with heat intense, I turn the hose of common sense...
...Lecture. "Typical Christian Hymns in Common Use. II. Ambrosian and Latin Hymns." Hon. Maurice F. Egan. Emerson...
...Modern Language Conference. "Some Eighteenth Century Political Ballads." Mr. Milton Percival.--"The Elaboration of the Legend of Saint Alexius." Mr. Rudolph Altrocchi. Conant Common Room...
...Lecture. "Typical Christian Hymns in Common Use. I. The Canticle of Canticles." Hon. Maurice F. Egan, Emerson...