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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Word has been received of the recent death of Nathan Cook Brackett '21, which occurred while he was working at the Atlantic Ship Yards in Portsmouth, N. H. He was killed by shock when he touched a live wire while at work on an lion girder...
...Freshmen not in the S. A. T. C. must live in the Yard, insofar as there are accommodations for them. The Freshmen will live in Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy and the north entry of Thayer...
...Verdun sector, I thought that I had never heard a barrage as intense as the French barrage of the 20th of August, but this one seemed to be multiplied by a hundred, and as one American officer remarked from a stretcher, "How is a man expected to live through such a thing as this?" The next morning the wounded started to pour into this little village, and this time the sight was especially sad, because among the many were not a few of our boys. I left for the front that afternoon, and I do not think I shall ever...
...Cantigny, and on the Marne "we met the enemy and they were ours." This is no cause for boasting: the German offensive has for overshadowed the tiny dents we have inched in the hostile line. Yet it is, we hope, an omen of future victories. If the coming millions live up to the standards of the first hundred thousands the final outcome cannot be in doubt. The German successes now need not loom too large in our minds when we gaze toward the future. Our war machine is getting under...
...Major Higginson made a brief speech. The principal address of the day was made by Lieutenant Morize, who spoke at some length on the added significance of Memorial Day this year, and the lessons we must learn from our dead. He showed how the men who have given their lives to their country teach us not only how to die, but also how to live. "The simile of one runner handing on the torch to the next, never letting the flame die out, is ever true," he declared, "and let us remember that the fewer the number remaining, the higher...