Word: enjoys
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From those first steps a general and lasting friendship has grown up between the service and the civilian public. The barrier between seems to have dropped out of sight for good. For the benefit of those of us who will find it pleasant to enjoy home hospitality after the war, and for the general reputation of the service, let us maintain the high reputation that we enjoy in this and in many another community. --The Oscillator...
...shut-minded opposition which all proposals on the subject met last year, Henry L. Higginson comes resolutely into the General Court with another petition dealing with the question of Sunday baseball. This time it is desired to legalize the playing of the game by soldiers and sailors who may enjoy turning to this healthy pastime during the odd hours on the Sabbath. The natural wisdom of providing these men with any and all sensibly planned opportunities for recreation, it is to be hoped will so appeal to the General Court that the legislature will not only admit the petition, upon...
...less favored half of the community, including small boys, are held as offenders against the law if they play baseball even out of church hours. It is not a question of legalizing professional baseball on Sunday, but of giving all the people an equal chance to enjoy the day--or else an equal legal restriction that all shall stay at home. Boston Transcript...
...early to say what length of life this new periodical will enjoy at North Carolina or how far other undergraduate bodies will go in emulating its striking example. It is not too much to say, however, that where such manifestations as these are discovered in the spontaneous life of an institution, there you may know one more American college is of a truth "finding the range," and preparing to forge its way forward into a new epoch of public usefulness. Boston Transcript...
...that mysterious figure, the Common People. There has been no bitterness in this campaign; it has been a question of impressing upon the public how small a chance the other three opponents had of walking into the City Hall in an official capacity. A voter and a gambler both enjoy picking a winner. But if a voter were to take all the recent campaign speeches seriously, he would have difficulty in seeing which way the wind blew. One man deserves success at the polls today above all the rest, since he is the only one who promises to give Boston...