Word: likes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...essentially desirable but it is not obvious just how it will make every citizen ready to become a soldier at a moment's notice, especially when French, British and American army experts fix six months as the minimum training for recruits Rating an any after an emergency is much like organizing a fire department after the outbreak of a conflagration...
...United States hold aloof from one another, the chance for the real international friendship which comes of long acquaintance will be small indeed. It took the actual comradeship of the front line trenches, stripping away social mannerisms and prejudices, to teach the American soldier in France to like and respect the Briton. Unfortunately, it is impossible to stage a war very frequently to promote international good-will. But, if we remain dependent upon newspapers, history books, and casual tourists for our knowledge of foreign countries, the chances for mutual understanding will not be increased...
...suppers, dances and parties of various kinds, trips to historic points under interesting guidance, besides the use of the Hostess House itself, with its homey atmosphere, where they can read, write, play the piano or victrola, and where they will find a hostess ready to listen when they feel like talking, where they can come alone or bring their mothers and sisters or their girl friends...
...this smoker, like all others in the University, will be a business meeting as much as a social gathering. It is only at such affairs that a class can discuss matters of common interest, launch its plans, and find exactly where it stands. And if the present Senior Class, the only class which has bridged the gap from peace times to peace times, does not revive the traditions to be discussed this evening, more than one Harvard custom will be thrown into the discard because of the war. Primarily there is Class Day and Commencement Week; no other class...
...come, to the many lists which have appeared in the frolics of the club for almost a century and a quarter. Curious enough it seems to learn that Joseph H. Choate, Charles Francis Adams and Phillips Brooks, all had their parts in the Pudding plays of older days. We like them all the better for the fact. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of the United States supreme court, the Hon. Hamilton Fish, Judge Robert Grant, Robert Bacon, the roster is long of those who in their time capered in the Pudding shows. We smile as we notice that Thomas Mott...