Word: oakes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have much to do with the rifle and bullet, or the bayonet, but it was and is necessary; at present of vastly greater importance that the above. With the necessity of five men behind the lines for one at the front the adage about the acorn and the oak is reversed to a large extent as regards war. The gigantic preparation that is necessary,--in ways of transportation, cantonements, supplies, etc., before we can really take care of the big armies which are to come in the next few years, are almost inconceivable. My one constant hope is that...
...spot to spend the winter. Undoubtedly it is less frigid than Ayer; in fact the center of Long Island is supposedly ten degrees warmer than New York City itself. The coating of snow and ice will keep the terrible dust down; the monotany of swamp-oak will be broken by this time by the newly-laid out drill grounds and cantonments. To the New Englander it will be an education to live away from his native hearth,--to mix with people who did not cross on the Mayflower. Yaphank has been greatly over-estimated as a jumping off place...
...evening a discussion on proselyting will be held, led by the following headmasters of secondary schools: Dr. Lewis Perry, Exeter; H. A. Peters, University School of Cleveland; M. R. McDaniel, Oak Park and River Forest Township High School; Dr. W. M. Irvine, Mercersburg, and Dr. A. E. Stearns, Andover...
...Thayer Beal, 2d, William Henry Meeker, West Newton. New York, N. Y. Wilfred Jacobs Brown, John Edward Parsons Morgan, Plymouth. New York, N. Y. George Colket Caner, William Webb Sanders, Philadelphia, Pa. Haverhill. Harrie Holland Dadmun, Harry Newell Squires, Jr., Arlington. Brookline. Addison Leman Gardner, Jr., Walter Irving Tibbetts, Oak Park, III. Dorchester. Wilford Almon Walker, Burlington...
...days ago I saw in the paper a letter from a graduate suggesting a bronze tablet in Soldiers Field in memory of Norman Prince '08. It occurred to me that the fact might not be generally known that the oak panels in the wainscoating of the Hall of the Union were intended for just such a purpose. I happened to be present when the architect, Mr. C. F. McKim, was discussing his plans for the Union with Mr. Higginson and others, and he said then that he hoped that the plain panels would genually be replaced by carved once inscribed...