Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...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 in full view above the throng. It seemed a living presence--a radiant embodiment visualizing the impelling cause of the unseen...
...Freshman jubilee program. Edward Borden Jennings, Jr., of Fall River, was elected secretary for the rest of the year. It is expected that many more mandolin players will report before next Monday night at 7 o'clock, when the first practice will be held in Smith Halls Common Room. Edwin Chamberlain Whittemore '19, of Cambridge, leader of the University Mandolin Club, will also take charge of the Freshman organization. It is expected that the club will take part in the entertainment during the afternoon of the day of the jubilee, and likely that it will alternate with the intramural singers...
...Formations on Tuesday at 2.30 P. M.: First Battalion will form on Garden street, this side of the Common, head resting opposite Appian Way. Second Battalion will form on Massachusetts avenue, facing south, head resting at Harvard Hall. Third Battalion will form on Massachusetts avenue, facing north, head resting at Massachusetts Hall. The Band will form east of the south end of University Hall. Color Guard will report at Headquarters...
...sport they go. This war is not one of headlines and billheads, it is man against man in deadly earnest. We are not the only great nation involved. Let us, for the moment, set aside our vanity and put our strong shoulders to the wheel of the Common Cause...
...understood that smaller tracts of land are also available for the camp, although it would be advantageous to have all the buildings together on the Common, thus forming a unit with the present quarters of the school...