Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...headquarters of the Battery at the Commonwealth Armory in Boston will be open every night this week for physical examinations and enlistments. No recruits will be admitted after this week and the age limit is 18 years. Additional information can be obtained from 1st Sergeant T. L. Storer '18 in Apthorp 10 or from Corporal Bruce Lancaster '18 in Westmorly...
...Battery A, and contains, like that organization, many graduates and undergraduates of the University. It is expected that these batteries will be called out very soon. Information may be obtained from C. E. Mead 2L, Wadsworth 13, any afternoon. Men who intend to enlist are to report at the Commonwealth Armory, Boston...
...Boston gave a most enthusiastic and cordial welcome to the six French officers who arrived yesterday afternoon to assist in the training of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps of the University. From the time they left their train at the South Station until the entered the Harvard Club on Commonwealth avenue, the Frenchmen passed between two lines of cheering men and women; in places the crowds were so thick that it was an impossibility to move along the sidewalks...
...Milk streets to Postoffice square, thence along Congress, State, Washington and School streets, to the City Hall, where the parade was review by Mayor Curley, and from there along Beacon street to the State House, where Governor McCall reviewed the men. Turning down Dartmouth street the Corps marched along Commonwealth avenue to the Harvard Club, and after being there reviewed by the six French officers, returned to Cambridge...
...means, too, that he must have some part in the spiritual commonwealth for which all else is little but a scaffolding. This does not mean that a knowledge of Latin declensions is a natural right. But it does mean that each human being should have some means of expression, some way of inviting his soul. Many different arts and crafts and sports may furnish these means. Any system of education which leaves them out is narrow and pedantic. Such a system must fail just as the so-called classical education has failed...