Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most interesting events concerned with the lighter side of trench warfare which I experienced during my year in France, spend most of the time at the front was the first Harvard class banquet ever held under fire," said Major Carroll J. Swan '01, of the 101st Engineers, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "In my own regiment three out of the six company commanders were in the class of 1901 at the University, Captain Edwin Bruch, Captain Charles Roach, and myself. On a section of the Toul front we met two other clasments, one a Colonel of Artillery...
...Bill. Mr. Edmund Gurney, as Old Bill, seemed to have stepped right out of "Fragments from France." A fine old walrus he was, blowing his drooping whiskers up from his mouth and expressing all emotions by the intelligent ejaculation, 'Ullo! As Alf, of the patent cigar lighter which would never light, Mr. Percy Jennings gave a very realistic representation of that cheerful, red headed little Irishman of the type which seems to have almost disappeared in these days of Teuton plots and Sinn Feiners. Mr. Leon Gordon, formerly of the Henry Jewett Players, took the part of Bert...
...this careful treatment of suspected cases may be ascribed the low number of cases among students at the University. For the history of past cases has shown that the sooner the cold or Influenza is taken in hand, the lighter the case will be, and the smaller the chance of the development of pneumonia...
...collection of hundreds of thousands of books will be necessary. The American Library Association is buying by the hundreds of thousands text-books and other serious books, for which there is enormous demand, but it is looking to the public to supply by gift the millions of volumes of lighter literature--fiction, poetry, travel, etc.--which our men must have...
Perhaps the editorial was merely a "filler" or, indeed, it may have been written in the same lighter vein as the one concerning the expected visit to America of a member of the deposed House of Romaneff, which appeared some weeks ago on your second page, or many others, which I have read and forgotten...