Word: home
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nation yet dream that our war is a war of gold, and out battles to be fought here at home, we are worse than the blind who cannot see, for we will not see. The strength of our armies is needed now, has been needed for months, and will be needed more terribly as weeks go by, to drive back in hard battles the German arms...
...whispered that the German Emperor is not adverse to the council. Perhaps he bears a deeper love to the Russian socialist than the holder of the same political tenets nearer home. However, the Emperor's interest is not necessarily the indication of a turn towards democracy...
...traditions, none is more ancient than the tradition of the dormitory "maid" of all work, popularly, cordially, and euphemistically known as the goodie. On many a student wall the gentle motto, "What is home without a mother?" has been replaced by the yet more unanswerable question, "what is a dorm without a goodie?" There is no reply to the query. A second Anthony might pause in vain...
...will there be this summer to place the favorite dress pumps in the waste-basket, and hide the only white scarf behind the steam pipes? Who will there be to diminish the stock of handkerchiefs and read the letters from home? Who will there be to brush the cobwebs from the picture of Sir Galahad into the cigar humidor? Life will be barren indeed. Who will there be to pick up what the squads left about...
Somehow the arrival of the French officers, and the parade in their honor bring the war home to us more than any of the recent occurrences. Gradually the University has become more and more devoted to the tasks of service before it, but these tasks have so far been local and personal. There has been nothing to place the College as a whole in intimate connection with actual warfare. Now, however, drill officers have appeared who have been themselves participants in the battles of France and Flanders. With these officers marching and drilling with us here in the Square, Harvard...