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...proposed, That some persons of leisure and public spirit, apply for a charter, by which they may be incorporated, with power to erect an Academy for the education of youth. . . . As to their studies, it . . is proposed that they learn those things that are likely to be most useful and most ornamental...
Chippewa men, standing erect in the bows, pole their canoes into the rice fields. In the stern of each canoe sits a squaw, holding in each hand a wooden flail. Gently, lest the plants be hurt, she presses a sheaf of rice stalks between the flails, bends the sheaf over the side of the canoe. Gently still, the flails knock the ripened heads off the stalks. The rice falls on a canvas cloth or into a birchbark basket; the canoe moves on; the rest of the grain sinks to the fertile mud on the bottom of the lake, to take...
...sentence TIME quoted was 90 words but some misimpression may have been given. In addition to asking whether the young men of the U.S. could hold their heads erect if they lived in peace while Britons and Frenchmen were fighting, Mr. Harbison also declared emphatically that he did not want the war to continue...
...Tough, erect little Oscar Penttila (pronounced Pen'-te-la) was born in Finland 37 years ago. Like many another Finnish youngster, he went to Germany for military training during World War I, helped chase the Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week...
Sirs: . . . Could it be that, for one minute, our business and governmental executives believe that we young men could ever hold our heads erect again in the presence of English or French youth were they to fight our battle and sacrifice the lives of their brethren in order that the Allies may dictate peace terms favorable to America as well as to themselves, all while we are enjoying a war boom here, with freedom to swim, hike, enjoy many sports, as contrasted to the horrors of the battlefields across the ocean...