Word: flags
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...packed stand at the corner of Boylston street. As soon as the old Boys in Blue came in sight (they were led by a drummer who was also a veteran of the Civil War), every person in the stand stood and shouted, while the men who fought for the flag and liberty more than fifty years ago paraded proudly, with eyes to the front and heads held high. Cheer upon cheer greeted the old soldiers, the women joining their voices, waving their hand-kerchiefs and giving the veterans the "Chatauqua salute." From start to finish of the parade, indeed...
...place so that it may in the future be able to produce new leaders. The graduates and faculty cannot do this. It rests with you whether or not the College comes through this period with her standards unlowered. As the Archbishop of York has said: 'You must keep the flag of the College flying...
...statistics given out by the New York Harvard Club on January 1, 1918, showed that 914 men, of which 870 are in active service, out of a total membership of 4,919 were working for the Government. The Boston Club service flag has, therefore, 466 more stars than that of the New York Club, though the number of men in the actual fighting forces shows that the former has a lead of only...
...Because of numerous workless days during the past winter, it is not advisable that the occasion should be made a holiday, be in every factory, store, mine, school and on every farm there should be a brief period during the day when everyone who is loyal to the flag should stand up and be counted. Flags should everywhere be unfurled. At 12 o'clock noon, factory whistles and church bells should send forth a volume of sound that will reach Berlin. Every band in the country will then play the "Star Spangled Banner," while people stand at attention...
...every college there should be special patriotic exercises, at which messages from students and alumni in the nation's service may be read, instruction as to how every college student can do his part to win the war can be given and a pledge of allegiance to the flag and to the cause of the war repeated by all. The colleges of America have responded nobly to the call to arms. On April 6th the faculties and students should let their brothers in the field know that they are with them in spirit and in effort. WILLIAM MATHER LEWIS...