Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...resorted to unless something radical occurs. We have to get that missing $4,000 in to Phillips Brooks House immediately, or at least let them know why we have not paid. We do not want to get the "scrap of paper" attitude toward pledges. They must be made as good as gold...
...there remains a matter of 233 pledges, which although overdue, and in spite of repeated appeals from Phillips Brooks House, have been overlooked or neglected. The men who signed these pledges--and mind you, they are all for small sums--should realize the responsibility they incurred to make them good within reasonable time. It would mean a good deal of extra work to organize another committee to chase up these overdue contributions. Moreover, the University Y. M. C. A. representative, Arthur Beane, is kept continually busy, as is his secretary, by so many difficult tasks, that it is unfair...
...came back they were still trudging. They seemed automatons endlessly marching from class to drill and back again; and, watching them we have wondered how they lived through a Cambridge winter with special tortures added by the Navy Department. Tomorrow these Cambridge mariners are leaving the good ship Holyoke for service on the Atlantic. They have had to undergo worse labors than Hercules ever dreamed of, and now laden with new uniforms and much knowledge they depart...
...order issued to the Four-Minute Men forbidding a campaign of hate--a methodical fanning of hatred against Germans and the German idea. This is America, where people form their own opinions and emotions. "We hate as one," said Lissauer's Hymn of Hate, and that was good German system, organization, propaganda. Here we work out our national salvation on a different plan. The individual rules. Tell him the facts and let him react as he wills. So runs the American idea...
...bright spot in this dull play was the dancing of the Misses Cissie and Georgie Sewell, who were charming at all times. It was to be regretted that they were not on the stage more often, for their grace almost put the audience in a good frame of mind. A military dance that these young women presented was unquestionably the most delightful thing in the performance...